All 16 Uses of
novel
in
Summer Pleasures, by Nora Roberts
- Every novel written has to do with choices.†
Chpt 1.3 *novel = new and original
- The weight of her pack was beginning to take precedence over the novelty of the scenery.†
Chpt 1.5novelty = the quality of being new and original
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- She's ambitious, has a remarkable talent for words, but works on a magazine and lets a half-finished novel sit abandoned in a drawer.†
Chpt 1.1
- Because she wasn't very good at taking advice, Lee switched on her bedside lamp, stretched out and opened Hunter Brown's latest novel.†
Chpt 1.1
- I've started a novel.†
Chpt 1.1
- Why do you waste your time writing gossip when you've got a novel to finish?†
Chpt 1.4
- You've no right working forty hours a week on anything but the novel you have inside you.†
Chpt 1.4
- And what about the novel?†
Chpt 1.4
- Your novel needs your time and talent.†
Chpt 1.7
- I'm flattered that you think my novel has some merit, but I have a job to do.†
Chpt 1.7
- You wish I'd never seen your novel and you don't want to discuss it.†
Chpt 1.7
- I never wrote for the money, Lenore, any more than the novel you're writing is done for financial gain.†
Chpt 1.8
- If a novel doesn't entertain, it isn't a novel and it's wasted your time.†
Chpt 1.8
- If a novel doesn't entertain, it isn't a novel and it's wasted your time.†
Chpt 1.8
- He mentioned your novel to me.†
Chpt 1.10
- I'd never have believed there could be a similarity of styles between a romance novel and a horror story, but there was.†
Chpt 1.12 *
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) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to a 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.