novel
an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,753 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 48,692 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
- a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction his bookcases were filled with nothing but novelshe burned all the novels
adjective
- original and of a kind not seen before also: fresh, new the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
- pleasantly new or different also: refreshing common sense of a most refreshing sort
novel in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Her aunt was sitting by the bureau, reading a novel from the circulating library.
Queed: A Novel · Henry Sydnor Harrison · Chapter 1
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A phrase came back to him from a novel he had been reading that afternoon in the train.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box · Henry Harland · Chapter 1
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We looked out of the window the next morning, on a landscape that was novel, yet somehow familiar.
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico · E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb · Chapter 1
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My turn is romantic, answered she, and I have ever had an ambition of being the heroine of a novel.
Hieroglyphic Tales · Horace Walpole · Chapter 1
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But sound and wholesome as the preaching is it seems to me more suitable for a tract than for a novel.
Punch — Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 · Various · Chapter 1