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no·vel·la

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noun, plural -vel·las, -vel·le [-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.

Origin:
1900–05; < Italian; see novel1
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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  • Roth's novella is a portrait of the intellectual as a young man combined with a boy-meets-girl tale.
  • Robust keyboard lets you work on that novella while waiting for the bus.
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novella (nəʊˈvɛlə)
 
n , pl -las, -le
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
 
[C20: from Italian; see novel1]

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