Definition of novel

"novel" in the noun sense

1. novel

an extended fictional work in prose usually in the form of a story

2. novel

a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction

"his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"

"he burned all the novels"

"novel" in the adjective sense

1. fresh, new, novel

original and of a kind not seen before

"the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"

2. novel, refreshing

pleasantly new or different

"common sense of a most refreshing sort"

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Quotations for novel

Every novel is a debtor to Homer. [ Emerson ]

An old novel has a history of its own. [ Alexander Smith ]

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, than the New Testament. [ Guthrie ]

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. [ Beecher ]

New or Novel? New and novel are sometimes used indiscriminately. New is opposed to old, novel to known; as, a new house, a novel invention. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life. [ Willmott ]

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them; almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, tender mothers. [ Thackeray ]

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]

Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind. [ Lowell ]

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

novel in Scrabble®

The word novel is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters novel:

VOLE
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word novel

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novel in Words With Friends™

The word novel is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters novel:

VOLE
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word novel

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Words within the letters of novel

2 letter words in novel (4 words)

3 letter words in novel (4 words)

4 letter words in novel (6 words)

5 letter words in novel (1 word)

novel + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving novel

Shorter words in novel

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Longer words containing novel

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