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novella

[ noh-vel-uh ]

noun

, plural no·vel·las, no·vel·le [noh-, vel, -ee, -, vel, -ey].
  1. a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio.
  2. a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel.


novella

/ nəʊˈvɛlə /

noun

  1. (formerly) a short narrative tale, esp a popular story having a moral or satirical point, such as those in Boccaccio's Decameron
  2. a short novel; novelette


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Word History and Origins

Origin of novella1

From Italian, dating back to 1900–05; novel 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of novella1

C20: from Italian; see novel 1

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Example Sentences

And in some ways [the novella at the end of the collection] “Jack and the Mad Dog” just sort of set me free.

Morgan, beamed in as ever from a planet far from ours, delivered a mini-novella, dedicated to these people being “part of me.”

I see my novella as being part of that—as part of the social discourse.

I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough.

The surprise is that the 127-page novella is far from terrible and creepy.

Una novella boccaccesca in azione nel secolo xv, p. 419 et seq.

Landau, M., La novella di messer Torello e le sue attinenze mitiche e leggendarie, in Giornale stor.

The most remarkable exception is Santa Maria Novella, which has an elaborate facing of black and white marble.

In other words the novella was actually (though still in miniature) a novel in nature as well as in name.

Rinaldo agreed, and marched with all his company to S. Maria Novella.

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