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novel         
  • 1474: The customer in the copyist's shop with a book he wants to have copied. This illustration of the first printed German [[Melusine]] looked back to the market of manuscripts.
  • Intimate short stories: ''The Court and City Vagaries'' (1711).
  • 1719 newspaper reprint of ''Robinson Crusoe''
  • [[Laurence Sterne]], ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'', vol.6, pp. 70–71 (1769)
  • Chaucer]] reciting ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]'': early-15th-century manuscript of the work at [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]]
  • [[Chinua Achebe]], Buffalo, 2008
  • [[Dan Brown]]
  • [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Vladivostok, 1995
  • [[J. K. Rowling]], 2010
  • [[Madame de Pompadour]] spending her afternoon with a book ([[François Boucher]], 1756)
  • [[Richard Head]], ''The English Rogue'' (1665)
  • Pamela]]'' (1741)
  • First edition of [[Aleksis Kivi]]'s ''[[The Seven Brothers]]'' (1870)
  • Paper as the essential carrier: [[Murasaki Shikibu]] writing her ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' in the early 11th century, 17th-century depiction
  • [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' (1852)
  • Waverley]]'' (1814)
NARRATIVE TEXT, NORMALLY OF A SUBSTANTIAL LENGTH AND IN THE FORM OF PROSE DESCRIBING A FICTIONAL AND SEQUENTIAL STORY
Novels; Proto-novel; Modern novel; Histories (history of the novel); Candidates for the first novel; Early novels; Proto-novels; Literary novel; Novel (literature); History of the novel; History of novels; The novel; Poetic Novel; 20th-century novels; 18th-century novels; 19th-century novels; 20th century novels
I. a.
New, strange, unusual, modern, recent, fresh, uncommon, rare.
II. n.
Tale, romance, story, fiction, fictitious narrative.
novel         
  • 1474: The customer in the copyist's shop with a book he wants to have copied. This illustration of the first printed German [[Melusine]] looked back to the market of manuscripts.
  • Intimate short stories: ''The Court and City Vagaries'' (1711).
  • 1719 newspaper reprint of ''Robinson Crusoe''
  • [[Laurence Sterne]], ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'', vol.6, pp. 70–71 (1769)
  • Chaucer]] reciting ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]'': early-15th-century manuscript of the work at [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]]
  • [[Chinua Achebe]], Buffalo, 2008
  • [[Dan Brown]]
  • [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Vladivostok, 1995
  • [[J. K. Rowling]], 2010
  • [[Madame de Pompadour]] spending her afternoon with a book ([[François Boucher]], 1756)
  • [[Richard Head]], ''The English Rogue'' (1665)
  • Pamela]]'' (1741)
  • First edition of [[Aleksis Kivi]]'s ''[[The Seven Brothers]]'' (1870)
  • Paper as the essential carrier: [[Murasaki Shikibu]] writing her ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' in the early 11th century, 17th-century depiction
  • [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' (1852)
  • Waverley]]'' (1814)
NARRATIVE TEXT, NORMALLY OF A SUBSTANTIAL LENGTH AND IN THE FORM OF PROSE DESCRIBING A FICTIONAL AND SEQUENTIAL STORY
Novels; Proto-novel; Modern novel; Histories (history of the novel); Candidates for the first novel; Early novels; Proto-novels; Literary novel; Novel (literature); History of the novel; History of novels; The novel; Poetic Novel; 20th-century novels; 18th-century novels; 19th-century novels; 20th century novels
novel1
¦ noun a fictitious prose narrative of book length.
Origin
C16: from Ital. novella (storia) 'new (story)'.
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novel2
¦ adjective interestingly new or unusual.
Derivatives
novelly adverb
Origin
ME: from OFr., from L. novellus, from novus 'new'.
novel         
  • 1474: The customer in the copyist's shop with a book he wants to have copied. This illustration of the first printed German [[Melusine]] looked back to the market of manuscripts.
  • Intimate short stories: ''The Court and City Vagaries'' (1711).
  • 1719 newspaper reprint of ''Robinson Crusoe''
  • [[Laurence Sterne]], ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'', vol.6, pp. 70–71 (1769)
  • Chaucer]] reciting ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]'': early-15th-century manuscript of the work at [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]]
  • [[Chinua Achebe]], Buffalo, 2008
  • [[Dan Brown]]
  • [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Vladivostok, 1995
  • [[J. K. Rowling]], 2010
  • [[Madame de Pompadour]] spending her afternoon with a book ([[François Boucher]], 1756)
  • [[Richard Head]], ''The English Rogue'' (1665)
  • Pamela]]'' (1741)
  • First edition of [[Aleksis Kivi]]'s ''[[The Seven Brothers]]'' (1870)
  • Paper as the essential carrier: [[Murasaki Shikibu]] writing her ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' in the early 11th century, 17th-century depiction
  • [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' (1852)
  • Waverley]]'' (1814)
NARRATIVE TEXT, NORMALLY OF A SUBSTANTIAL LENGTH AND IN THE FORM OF PROSE DESCRIBING A FICTIONAL AND SEQUENTIAL STORY
Novels; Proto-novel; Modern novel; Histories (history of the novel); Candidates for the first novel; Early novels; Proto-novels; Literary novel; Novel (literature); History of the novel; History of novels; The novel; Poetic Novel; 20th-century novels; 18th-century novels; 19th-century novels; 20th century novels
n.
1) to publish; write a novel
2) a detective, mystery; dime; historical novel
3) (misc.) to make a novel into a film

Wikipedia

Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel
Pronunciation examples for novel
1. novel.
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2. novel.
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3. novel.
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4. novel.
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5. novel.
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Examples of use of novel
1. Her novel, alas, does not include novel perspective.
2. The prize pits the winners of five book categories – poetry, biography, children‘s, debut novel and novel – against each other.
3. In the first round, winners are chosen from five separate categories: novel, first novel, children‘s book, biography and poetry.
4. "When my first novel Metroland 1'80 was published it would be reviewed with Melvyn Bragg‘s new novel.
5. Every time he finished a novel, he bought a yacht, which meant he had to write another novel.
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