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Definition
new and original — typically something considered goodMore commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to work of fiction that is published as a book.
- It is a novel idea and just might work.
novel = new and original
- We're looking for novel advertising ideas.
- The computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem.
- She both fits in perfectly yet remains slightly novel.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- But enough of that for the present; let us go and see Master Pedro's show, for I am sure there must be something novel in it.Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
- If you think about the world of a preschooler, they are surrounded by stuff they don't understand — things that are novel.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- He remembered every detail of the previous day and he knew that a perfectly novel experience had befallen him, that he had received an impression unlike anything he had known before.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- He relished the role and concocted novel, grueling training regimens that his teammates still remember well.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- The whole thing was so novel and surprising that the General was completely overcome with happiness.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.Henry David Thoreau -- Resistance to Civil Government
- Such meditation was a new thing for him, novel, sweet in a melancholy sort of way,Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- He decided to offer Lorenzo a novel solution: "Next time somebody wants to fight you, pretend you're having a seizure."Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
- Of course, there's nothing novel in that.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- He wanted to find a "novel" item, something that people would wear that was not being sold in the stores.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
- In after years such things became commonplace enough, but then they were in no slight degree novel and startling.Frank R. Stockton -- The Lady, or the Tiger?
- ...the enemy is crafty and cunning and full of novel treacheries and stratagems.Winston Churchill -- Their Finest Hour
- Bathsheba's adventurous spirit was beginning to find some grains of relish in these highly novel proceedings.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Later I realized what made the experience so novel: He was the first old person I'd spent time with who wasn't in my family.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
novel = new and original
novel = new and original
novel = pleasantly new and original
novel = new and original
novel = new
novel = pleasantly new and original
novel = new (not previously seen)
novel = new and original
novel = pleasantly new and original
novel = new and original
novel = pleasantly new and original
novel = new and original
novel = pleasantly new and original
novel = pleasantly new and original
novel = new and original
novel = pleasantly new and original
novel = new and original