novella
novella · novellas · novelle
повість, новела
повесть
Novelle
A short novel or long short storyA short novel or long short story.
/nəˈvɛlə/
» When I finished reading that novella, I hugged it.
Meaning
2 sensesA short novel or long short story.
Novelle
по́вестьpóvestʹ
нове́лаnovéla, по́вістьpóvistʹ
a short novel
(Byzantine, Roman, historical)Synonym of novel (“a new legal constitution”)
Examples
3 sentencesWhen I finished reading that novella, I hugged it.
She writes novellas.
ruОна пишет повести.
It took the length of a novella to fully explicate the theory in Toki Pona.
Translations
9 languagesУкраїнська
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Origin
Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel. Learned borrowing from Latin novella. DoBorrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.
Learned borrowing from Latin novella. Doublet of novel.
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Forms
plural: novellas / novelle / novellaeSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsRelatednovelA2
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular