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[ noh-vel-uh ] / noʊˈvɛl ə / SEE SYNONYMS FOR novella ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural no·vel·las, no·vel·le [noh-vel-ee, -vel-ey]. /noʊˈvɛl i, -ˈvɛl eɪ/. a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio. a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel. Origin of novellaFrom Italian, dating back to 1900–05; see origin at novel1 Words nearby novellanovelette, novelettish, novelist, novelistic, novelize, novella, Novello, Novels, novelty, November, novemdecillion Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for novellaAnd in some ways [the novella at the end of the collection] “Jack and the Mad Dog” just sort of set me free. Tony Earley's Imaginary Friends|Mindy Farabee|September 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST I see my novella as being part of that—as part of the social discourse. The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial Book|Tim Teeman|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough. The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial Book|Tim Teeman|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST The surprise is that the 127-page novella is far from terrible and creepy. The Surprisingly Good Flight 370 Novel: Author Scott Maka Defends His Controversial Book|Tim Teeman|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Three years later, I returned to Beijing and wrote my first novella—Stick Out Your Tongue, inspired by my travels through Tibet. Ma Jian: How I Write|Noah Charney|June 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST And yet in comparison with its importance in this respect the novella and the romance of chivalry are quite insignificant. John Lyly|John Dover Wilson With Crabbe the novella became as distinctly the short story as it has become in the hands of Miss Wilkins. Literature and Life|William Dean Howells The Novella is crowned every year at Assumption, and her red robe is changed at the same time; it is the custom. Very Woman|Remy de Gourmont These circumstances determined the length and ruled the mechanism of the Novella. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature|John Addington Symonds The name is derived from Calandro, a simpleton of Calandrino's type; and the interest of the plot is that of a Novella. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature|John Addington Symonds
British Dictionary definitions for novella
noun plural -las or -le (-leɪ)(formerly) a short narrative tale, esp a popular story having a moral or satirical point, such as those in Boccaccio's Decameron a short novel; novelette Word Origin for novellaC20: from Italian; see novel 1 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to novellastory, yarn, fiction, tale, narrative, prose, paperback, romance, novelette, potboiler, cliff-hanger, account |