Meaning

2 senses
  1. A short novel or long short story.

    Novelle

    по́вестьpóvestʹ

    нове́лаnovéla, по́вістьpóvistʹ

    a short novel

  2. (Byzantine, Roman, historical)Synonym of novel (“a new legal constitution”)

Examples

3 sentences
  1. When I finished reading that novella, I hugged it.

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  2. She writes novellas.

    ruОна пишет повести.

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  3. It took the length of a novella to fully explicate the theory in Toki Pona.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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short novel:
Deutsch
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short novel:

Origin

Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel. Learned borrowing from Latin novella. Do

Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.

Learned borrowing from Latin novella. Doublet of novel.

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Forms

plural: novellas / novelle / novellae
Singularnovella
Pluralnovellas / novelle / novellae

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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