From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Literaturenovelnovβ§el1 /ΛnΙvΙl $ ΛnΙΛ-/ βββW3 noun [countable]ALa long written story in which the characters and events are usually imaginary β fiction
a novel by Jane Austen
It took Vikram Seth three years to write his 1,349-page novel βA Suitable Boyβ.detective/romantic/historical etc novel
a newly published science fiction novelβΊ see thesaurus at bookExamples from the Corpusnovelβ’ The movie is based on a novel by Anne Tyler.β’ I started to plan a novel.β’ My experience was limited largely to news and news feature writing until recently, when I ventured to write a novel.β’ a novel by John Irvingβ’ Butler has also written several historicalnovels under the pen-name of Jenny Melville.β’ For much of its course, the later novel takes all this for granted.β’ This is the study where Hemingway wrote the legendarynovels 'Death in the Afternoon' and 'For Whom the BellTolls'.β’ The new novel usually starts from where one is, seldom from a vision of a lost world or futureutopia.β’ As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbusterromanticnovel or epiccostumefilm.β’ Johnston's nudes look like cover art for romantic novels.β’ Nathalie Sarraute's novels could be claimed to displayautonomy and reflexivity, despite her preoccupation with such a mimeticproject.β’ The new Sidney Shelton novel is to be adapted for film later in the year.β’ No such novel ever got written.β’ The novelcontains a number of important historical accidents which reveal the heavy hand of the author.detective/romantic/historical etc novelβ’ The reverse is also true; those who preferhistorical novels may also enjoy some Historical Romances.β’ Many readers of Historical Romances also readhistorical novels, broadening the field of selection immensely.β’ Tolstoy, Hemingway and Hardy, thrillers and spy stories, historical novels, light romances.β’ One last observation about the detective novel.β’ This is the detective novel or the crime novel which makes its comments on life through humour rather than more directly.β’ One of the greatest historians for children is the author Jean Fritz who has written historical novels and picture books.β’ Tony Ballard was a painter and his wife, Zelah, wrote historical novels.novelnovel2 βββ adjective [usually before noun]NEWnot like anything known before, and unusual or interestingnovel idea/approach/method etc
What a novel idea!βΊ see thesaurus at newExamples from the Corpusnovelβ’ a novelapproach to the problemβ’ Since then, imprisoningcorporateofficials has become less novel but by no meansuniversal.β’ A noveldevelopment, the company claims, it turns Macs into cheapworkstations.β’ Tonight's TV news will be presented in a novelformat.β’ Scientists have come up with a novel way of catchingfish.β’ The model produced provides an excellent and novel way of viewing the business.novel idea/approach/method etcβ’ For example, when the legislature asked for a study of the personneldepartment, the change leaders took a novel approach.β’ The new regiment was the Army's first experiment in sending men into battle by this novel method.β’ Thus it was that the world took such note of Fleischmann and Pons' claim to have found a novel approach.β’ It was a novel idea and one we appreciated later when the weatherimproved.β’ Sometimes, however, novel ideas can boomerang.β’ It was such a novel idea it was hard to get your mind around it.β’ Law-and-order was one thing; the novel idea of the public sector providing parkland for the people was quite another.β’ It's a novel idea whose time has come.Originnovel1(1500-1600)Italiannovella; β NOVELLAnovel2(1400-1500)Old Frenchβnewβ, from Latinnovellus, from novusβnewβ
