NOVEL

Novel

A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story. The genre has historical roots in antiquity and the fields of medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century.

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novel

Noun

  1. A novelty; something new.
  2. A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
  3. A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
  4. A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

Adjective

  1. new, original, especially in an interesting way


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