novel
4 definitions found
novel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Novel \Nov"el\, n. [F. nouvelle. See Novel, a.]
1. That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
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2. pl. News; fresh tidings. [Obs.]
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Some came of curiosity to hear some novels.
--Latimer.
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3. A fictitious tale or narrative, longer than a short story,
having some degree of complexity and development of
characters; it is usually organized as a time sequence of
events, and is commonly intended to exhibit the operation
of the passions, and often of love. --Dryden.
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4. [L. novellae (sc. constitutiones): cf. F. novelles.] (Law)
A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under
Novel, a.
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Novel \Nov"el\, a. [OF. novel, nuvel, F. nouvel, nouveau, L.
novellus, dim. of novus new. See New.]
Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence,
out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
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Note: In civil law, the novel or new constitutions are those
which are supplemental to the code, and posterior in
time to the other books. These contained new decrees of
successive emperors.
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Novel assignment (Law), a new assignment or specification
of a suit.
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Syn: New; recent; modern; fresh; strange; uncommon; rare;
unusual.
Usage: Novel, New . Everything at its first occurrence is
new; that is novel which is so much out of the
ordinary course as to strike us with surprise. That is
a new sight which is beheld for the first time; that
is a novel sight which either was never seen before or
is seen but seldom. We have daily new inventions, but
a novel one supposes some very peculiar means of
attaining its end. Novel theories are regarded with
distrust, as likely to prove more ingenious than
sound.
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novel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
novel
adj 1: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer
produced a completely novel proof of a well-known
theorem" [syn: fresh, new, novel]
2: pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most
refreshing sort" [syn: novel, refreshing]
n 1: an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of
a story
2: 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"
novel - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
122 Moby Thesaurus words for "novel":
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
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