Both Uses of
novel
in
Washington Square
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- It was the way a young man might talk in a novel; or better still, in a play, on the stage, close before the footlights, looking at the audience, and with every one looking at him, so that you wondered at his presence of mind.†
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- She is past the age at which people are forbidden, and I am not a father in an old-fashioned novel.†
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Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to work of fiction that is published as a book. In the form novelty, the word can refer to an inexpensive, mass-produced item of interest such as a toy, trinket, or item given away to advertise.