noun, adjective
noun a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which the characters and events are usually imaginary:
to write / publish / read a novel * detective / historical / romantic novels * the novels of Jane Austen
adjective (often approving) different from anything known before; new, interesting and often seeming slightly strange:
a novel idea / feature / design * Job-sharing is still a novel concept and it will take a while for employers to get used to it.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for novel is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does novel appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — novel appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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