Novel

Adjective

 * 1) new, original, especially in an interesting way

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:new

Noun

 * 1)  A novelty; something new.
 * 2)  A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
 * 3) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:
 * merry tales [...] such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.
 * 1) A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
 * 2)  A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

Derived terms

 * novelisation, novelization
 * novelist

Related terms

 * novella

Adjectives for Novel
powerful; cherished;  gifted;  historical; pretty; lurid; liberal; daring; surging; trifling; psychological; well-contrived; mysterious; admirable  humorous; meritorious; successful; crude indecent; imitative; masterly; engrossing melancholy; improbable; sensational; popular; ambitious; episode; brilliant; ingenious; well-made; subtle; profound; contemporary; fast-moving; dramatic; frank; sympathetic; conventional; distinguished; social; florid; sentimental; slipshod; inflated; proletarian; romantic; biographical; jejune;  fine;  light;  sex-free; sentimental; absorbing; exotic; diverting; comprehensive; vivid; accurate; late; experimental; original; convincing; readable; excellent; magnificent; moving; interesting; pleasant; glowing; enjoyable; grand; fascinating; early; stirring; famous.

Verbs for Novel
acclaim—; applaud—; clamor for—; climax —; construct—; contemplate—; copyright—,; create—; denounce—; devour—; embark on —; engross in—; interpret—; introduce—; peruse—; plan—; portray in—; scribble—; weave into—; —appears; —centers about; —deals with; —depicts; —enthralls; — evolves; —portrays; —reveals; —treats of; —unfolds.

Thesaurus
Bildungsroman, Gothic novel, authentic, avant-garde, bauble, best seller, bibelot, blockbuster, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, comic novel, creative, curio, definitive work, detective novel, different, dime novel, dreadful, epistolary novel, erotic novel, firsthand, folio, fresh, gewgaw, gimcrack, great work, hardback, historical novel, imaginative, juvenile, juvenile book, limp-cover book, magnum opus, modern, modernistic, narrative, neoteric, new, new-fashioned, newfangled, nonbook, notebook, nouvelle, novel of character, novel of ideas, novel of incident, novel of manners, novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, odd, opus, opuscule, opusculum, original, paperback, peculiar, penny dreadful, picaresque novel, picture book, playbook, pocket book, pornographic novel, prayer book, problem novel, production, proletarian novel, propaganda novel, psalmbook, psalter, psychological novel, publication, recent, regional novel, revolutionary, river novel, roman, roman a clef, roman-fleuve, romance, satirical novel, science-fiction novel, sentimental novel, serial, shilling shocker, short story, short-short, singular, sketchbook, sociological novel, soft-cover, songbook, special, standard work, storiette, story, storybook, strange, stream-of-consciousness novel, tale, thesis novel, title, tome, trade book, trifle, trinket, uncommon, unconventional, underived, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unique, untested, untried, unusual, vignette, volume, whatnot, work, writing

Etymology 1
< novel: (modern nouvel:) <  novellus:, diminutive of novus:.

Etymology 2
In various senses from novelle: or  novella:, both from  novella:, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus:, from novus:. Some senses came to English directly from the Latin.

Adjective

 * Chinese: 新穎, 新颖
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: πρωτότυπος
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:


 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: несекојдневен
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, оригинальный
 * Spanish:, novel
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: వినూత్న (vinootna)

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: novel·la
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: (xiǎoshuō)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: कथा, कहानी, उपन्यास
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 소설 (soseol)


 * Latin: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  повесть,  новелла
 * Scottish Gaelic: nobhail
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: నవల
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Adjective

 * 1) new

Etymology
novellus:.

Descendants

 * English :
 * French: nouveau

Adjective

 * 1) novel, new