novelnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈnɒv.əl/us/ˈnɑː.vəl/B1 a long printed story about imaginary characters and events:
a paperback novel
historical/romantic novels
Have you read any of Jane Austen's novels?
His latest novel is selling really well.
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- She churns out a new bestselling novel every year.
- Have you ever read Fielding's classic novel 'Tom Jones'?
- This passage of text has been excerpted from her latest novel.
- She has amassed a huge fortune from her novels.
- The characters in his novels tend to be rather one-dimensional.
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- digest
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- flipback
- glossy
- manuscript
- novella
- page-turner
- paperback
- photo album
- picture book
- travelogue
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noveladjective
uk/ˈnɒv.əl/us/ˈnɑː.vəl/new and original, not like anything seen before:
a novel idea/suggestion
Keeping a sheep in the garden is a novel way of keeping the grass short!
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New
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- afresh
- brand new
- brave new
- break the mould idiom
- breath
- injection
- innovation
- innovative
- latest
- latter-day
- mint
- minute 1
- neo-
- novelty
- original
- originality
- pristine
- revolutionary
- the avant-garde
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