Novel
['nɒv(ə)l] or [ˈnɑːvl]
Definition
(noun.) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; 'his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels'; 'he burned all the novels'.
(noun.) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story.
(adj.) pleasantly new or different; 'common sense of a most refreshing sort' .
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Definition
(a.) Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
(a.) That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
(a.) News; fresh tidings.
(a.) A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.
(a.) A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. New, strange, unusual, late, modern, recent.
n. Tale, romance, story, fiction, fictitious narrative, extended parable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See NEW-FANGLED]
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Definition
adj. new: unusual: strange.—n. that which is new: a new or supplemental constitution or decree issued by certain Roman emperors as Justinian after their authentic publications of law (also Novell′a): a fictitious prose narrative or tale presenting a picture of real life esp. of the emotional crises in the life-history of the men and women portrayed.—n. Novelette′ a small novel.—v.t. Nov′elise to change by introducing novelties: to put into the form of novels.—v.i. to make innovations.—n. Nov′elist a novel-writer: an innovator.—adj. Novelist′ic.—n. Nov′elty newness: unusual appearance: anything new strange or different from anything before:—pl. Nov′elties.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced as in the panorama. Unity totality of effect is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle probability corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels such as it was is long dead everywhere except in Russia where it is new. Peace to its ashes—some of which have a large sale.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A fabric that is often (k)nit in print, though the yarn be well spun.
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Examples
- The horse is still novel enough to be something of a terror in itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The operation is novel, not the materials out of which it is constructed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Those letters, in her ladyship's novel, _Glenarvon,_ are much in your own style, and rather better than she could write. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Why not drift on in a series of accidents-like a picaresque novel? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He is the inventor of wonderful new apparatus, and the exploiter of novel and successful arts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Is the circumstance strange or novel? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Increased intelligence assures perpetuation of other species in novel and unf oreseen conditions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Human Justice rushed before me in novel guise, a red, random beldame, with arms akimbo. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A third cheap issue, at eighteenpence a novel, is now being published by the present proprietors, Messrs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Paul stooped down and proceeded--as novel-writers say, and, as was literally true in his case--to hiss into my ear some poignant words. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is like a novel of adventure. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If this is a novel without a hero, at least let us lay claim to a heroine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It has been made the ground-work of one or two novels and an opera by Wagner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My sisters used to subscribe to little circulating libraries in the neighbourhood, for the common novels of the day; but I always hated these. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Another says, 'It's one of the best American novels which has appeared for years. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The first impulse is to abolish all lobster palaces, melodramas, yellow newspapers, and sentimentally erotic novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You'd have nothing but horses, inkstands, and novels in yours, answered Meg petulantly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Your mind is poisoned with French novels. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I said 'Magazines and novels. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In her absence Miss Crawley solaced herself with the most sentimental of the novels in her library. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Serjeant Snubbins was a lantern-faced, sallow-complexioned man, of about five-and-forty, or--as the novels say--he might be fifty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A vague common tradition is in the air about us--it expresses itself in journalism, in cheap novels, in the uncritical theater. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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