NOVEL
What does "NOVEL" mean?
A long fictional prose narrative depicting characters and events.
Meanings
- A book-length work of fiction telling a story through prose. She finished the novel in one sitting, missing the last train home.
- New, original, or unlike anything previously seen. The team proposed a novel approach to cooling the data centre.
Did you know?
- The work often called the world's first novel was written by a woman: Murasaki Shikibu finished 'The Tale of Genji' around the year 1010, centuries before the European novel emerged.
Word origin
From Italian 'novella' (a new little story), from Latin 'novellus' (new, young), a diminutive of 'novus' (new); the adjective and noun share the same root meaning 'new'.
Remember it
A NOVEL is something NEW - both come from Latin 'novus', new; a good novel always tells you something novel.
A little poem
Six hundred pages-
a stranger's whole invented life
lived in one rainy week.
haiku
Wordplay
- My friend wrote a book that was both a story and a brand-new idea. I called it a novel novel.
What it teaches
The same root grows two meanings: what is new and what is told - we make sense of newness by turning it into a story.
Quick facts
What does NOVEL mean?
A long fictional prose narrative depicting characters and events.
Is NOVEL a valid word?
Yes — NOVEL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is NOVEL?
NOVEL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does NOVEL come from?
From Italian 'novella' (a new little story), from Latin 'novellus' (new, young), a diminutive of 'novus' (new); the adjective and noun share the same root meaning 'new'.
What can NOVEL teach us?
The same root grows two meanings: what is new and what is told - we make sense of newness by turning it into a story.
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