All 4 Uses
novel
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Running in the Family
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- Apart from Knox, and later Leonard Woolf in his novel, A Village in the Jungle, very few foreigners truly knew where they were.†
p. 83.1 *novel = new and original
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- They danced in large living rooms to the music of a Bijou-Moutrie piano while the log fires crackled in every room, or on quiet evenings read books on the moonlit porch, slicing open the pages as they progressed through a novel.†
p. 40.3 *
- It is the kind of event that should have surfaced as the first chapter of an anguished autobiographical novel.†
p. 138.9
- In the bathroom ants had attacked the novel thrown on the floor by the commode.†
p. 189.6
Definitions:
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(novel as in: a novel situation) new and original -- typically something considered good
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(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.