Definitions
pleasantly new or different
Word origin
From Middle English novel, from Old French novel (“new, fresh, recent, recently made or done, strange, rare”) (modern nouvel, nouveau), from Latin novellus (“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus (“new”). Doublet of nouveau.
Used in a sentence
“merry tales[…]such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.”
“Libum is a cake made of Honey (sugar is a nouvelle, since the discovery of America), meale and oyle.”
“The normal and natural relationship of emperor and churchman was summed up by Justinian in one of his novels […]”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Long fictional book”5 letters
02“Long work of fiction”5 letters
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