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- [noh-vel-uh]
- /noʊˈvɛl ə/
- /nəʊˈvel.ə/
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- [noh-vel-uh]
- /noʊˈvɛl ə/
Definitions of novella word
- noun plural novella a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio. 1
- noun plural novella a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel. 1
- noun novella A short novel or long short story. 1
- noun novella fiction: short novel 1
- countable noun novella A novella is a short novel or a long short story. 0
- noun novella (formerly) a short narrative tale, esp a popular story having a moral or satirical point, such as those in Boccaccio's Decameron 0
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Origin of novella
First appearance:
before 1900 One of the 17% newest English words
From Italian, dating back to 1900-05; See origin at novel1
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Parts of speech for Novella
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novella popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
novella usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for novella
noun novella
- novelette — a brief novel or long short story.
- short story — a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
- tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
- fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
- fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
Antonyms for novella
noun novella
- non-fiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
- truth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
- epic — Of, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics.
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