Definitions for novella

novella no·vel·la

Spelling: [noh-vel-uh]
IPA: /noʊˈvɛl ə/

Novella is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in novella (aellnov).

Definitions for novella

noun

  1. a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio.
  2. a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel.

Origin of novella

From Italian, dating back to 1900-05; See origin at novel1

Examples for novella

The novelette can have almost as perfect form as the novella.

I see my novella as being part of that—as part of the social discourse.

The novella stooped towards the prisoner and touched his face with her lips.

I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough.

Three years later, I returned to Beijing and wrote my first novella—Stick Out Your Tongue, inspired by my travels through Tibet.

In both cases the difference of the novella is in the motive, or the origination.

And in some ways [the novella at the end of the collection] “Jack and the Mad Dog” just sort of set me free.

Perhaps he was going to perish here, without seeing the novella again.

The surprise is that the 127-page novella is far from terrible and creepy.

In other words the novella was actually (though still in miniature) a novel in nature as well as in name.

Word Value for novella
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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