| Noun | 1. | novel - a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a storyfiction - a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact roman a clef - a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters romance - a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life roman fleuve - a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group | |
| 2. | novel - a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"book, volume - physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" | |
| Adj. | 1. | novel - of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"original - being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" | |
| 2. | novel - pleasantly novel or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" | |