Definitions for novel

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novel nov·el

Spelling: [nov-uh l]

IPA: /ˈnɒv əl/

Novel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in novel (elnov).

Definitions for novel

noun

1. a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
2. (formerly) novella (def 1).
3. Roman Law. an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials. Usually, Novels. imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
4. Civil Law. an amendment to a statute.

adjective

1. of a new kind; different from anything seen or known before:

Origin of novel

1560-70; Italian novella (storia) new kind of story. See novel²

Examples for novel

Houellebecq on Thursday announced that he is suspending promotion of the novel.

He was not originally so uninhibited, however, as can now be seen in his “lost” novel, Skylight.

He went over once more the day's arguments for and against the novel emprise.

His books include Render unto Rome and a novel about Louisiana politics, Last of the Red Hot Poppas.

The last post had brought the proofs of his second novel to him.

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel.

Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.

"And then there's the novel I wrote when I was at home," he concluded.

In fact, I wrote 212 pages of a novel called The Discovery of Sex that was bought, and I pulled it.

"Oh, my dear," she said, clasping the novel with one hand while she embraced him with the other.