novel

A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long prose narrative set out in writing. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romances and short novels, novellas, has brought definitions of both traditions into the modern usage of the term.
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adj. novel, new; strange

n. newness, state of being new; novelty

adj. novice, beginner, inexperienced person, green

(a.)
That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
  

(a.)
Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
  

(a.)
News; fresh tidings.
  

(a.)
A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.
  

(a.)
A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.