All 9 Uses of
novel
in
Anna Karenina
- We have to have the house lively and gay, so that Alexey may not long for any novelty.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- Darya Alexandrovna watched this luxury which was novel to her, and as a good housekeeper used to managing a household—although she never dreamed of adapting anything she saw to her own household, as it was all in a style of luxury far above her own manner of living—she could not help scrutinizing every detail, and wondering how and by whom it was all done.
Part 6 (definition 1)novel = new and original
- Several sections of this book and its introduction had appeared in periodical publications, and other parts had been read by Sergey Ivanovitch to persons of his circle, so that the leading ideas of the work could not be completely novel to the public.
Part 8 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Anna answered a few words, but not foreseeing any entertainment from the conversation, she asked Annushka to get a lamp, hooked it onto the arm of her seat, and took from her bag a paper knife and an English novel.†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- If she read that the heroine of the novel was nursing a sick man, she longed to move with noiseless steps about the room of a sick man; if she read of a member of Parliament making a speech, she longed to be delivering the speech; if she read of how Lady Mary had ridden after the hounds, and had provoked her sister-in-law, and had surprised everyone by her boldness, she too wished to be doing the same.†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- The hero of the novel was already almost reaching his English happiness, a baronetcy and an estate, and Anna was feeling a desire to go with him to the estate, when she suddenly felt that he ought to feel ashamed, and that she was ashamed of the same thing.†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- Anna sat down at the hearth with an English novel and waited for her husband.†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- He sat with his coat unbuttoned over a white waistcoat, resting both elbows on the table, and while waiting for the steak he had ordered he looked at a French novel that lay open on his plate.†
Part 2 (definition 2)
- Here Vronsky showed them the mechanism for ventilation on a novel system.†
Part 6 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (novel as in: a novel situation) new and original -- typically something considered good
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(2) (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.