name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
novella
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: nəvĕlʹə
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UK: nōvĕlʹə
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UK: /nəˈvɛlə/
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UK: /nəʊˈvɛlə/
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US: nəvĕlʹə
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US: nōvĕlʹə
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US: /nəˈvɛlə/
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US: /noʊˈvɛlə/
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rhymes with -ɛlə
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CMU ARPABET: N OW0 V EH1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A short novel or long short story.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: novelette
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Synonym of novel (“new legal constitution in Ancient Rome”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: novel
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a short novel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: novelette
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: novel
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian or Catalan Novella.
Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: novel·leta — short novel
- Chinese Mandarin: 中篇小說 /中篇小说 (zhōngpiān xiǎoshuō) — short novel
- Czech: novela — short novel
- Danish: novelle — short novel
- Dutch: novelle — short novel
- Faroese: stuttsøga — short novel
- Finnish: lyhytromaani — short novel
- French: nouvelle — short novel
- French: court roman — short novel
- German: Novelle — short novel
- Greek: νουβέλα (nouvéla) — short novel
- Hungarian: elbeszélés — short novel
- Hungarian: kisregény — short novel
- Indonesian: novela — short novel
- Italian: novella — short novel
- Italian: romanzo breve — short novel
- Japanese: 短編小説 (tanpen-shōsetsu) — short novel
- Khmer: នវប្រលោមលោកខ្លី (nak vak brolom lok klei) — short novel
- Korean: 중편소설 (jungpyeonsoseol) — short novel
- Macedonian: повест (povest) — short novel
- Occitan: novèla — short novel
- Polish: nowela — short novel
- Portuguese: novela — short novel
- Romanian: nuvelă — short novel
- Russian: по́весть (póvestʹ) — short novel
- Spanish: novela corta — short novel
- Spanish: novelilla — short novel
- Swedish: kortroman — short novel
- Turkish: uzun hikâye — short novel
- Ukrainian: нове́ла (novéla) — short novel
- Ukrainian: по́вість (póvistʹ) — short novel
- Vietnamese: tiểu thuyết ngắn — short novel
- Vietnamese: truyện vừa — short novel
Real reading context