Need another word that means the same as “novel”? Find 6 synonyms and 30 related words for “novel” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Novel” are: book, paperback, hardback, fresh, new, refreshing
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “novel” as a noun can have the following definitions:
book | A literary composition that is published or intended for publication as a book. A book of selected poems. |
hardback | A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers. |
paperback | A book with paper covers. The shelves were stacked with well thumbed paperbacks. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “novel” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
fresh | Free from impurities. Fresh bread. |
new | Gratuitously new. New cars. |
refreshing | Welcome or stimulating because new or different. Common sense of a most refreshing sort. |
adaptation | A film, television drama, or stage play that has been adapted from a written work. The adaptation of teaching strategy to meet students needs. |
adaption | The process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions. |
adjustment | The process of adapting or becoming used to a new situation. I ve made a few adjustments to my diet. |
author | Be the author of a book or piece of writing. The concept has been authored largely by insurance companies. |
authorship | The act of creating written works. A number of paintings have been attributed to him on stylistic grounds though his authorship is not certain. |
autobiography | An account of a person’s life written by that person. He gives a vivid description of his childhood in his autobiography. |
bestseller | A book that has had a large and rapid sale. The bestseller list. |
denouement | The outcome of a complex sequence of events. I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement. |
edit | A version of written recorded or filmed material made as a result of editing. She edited the juiciest scenes. |
essay | Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to. A misjudged essay in job preservation. |
fiction | Literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people. They were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married. |
journal | Write in a journal or diary. While abroad he had kept a journal. |
literary | Of language associated with literary works or other formal writing having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect. A literary style. |
literature | The humanistic study of a body of literature. Her place in literature is secure. |
manuscript | An author’s handwritten or typed text that has not yet been published. An illuminated manuscript. |
masterpiece | An outstanding achievement. A great literary masterpiece. |
memoir | An account of the author’s personal experiences. In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband. |
narrate | Narrate or give a detailed account of. The series is narrated by Richard Baker. |
narrator | A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. A religious broadcast with Johnny Morris as narrator. |
nonfiction | Prose writing that is not fictional. |
potboiler | A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot. |
protagonist | The main figure or one of the most prominent figures in a situation. The novel s main protagonist is an American intelligence officer. |
reading | The action or skill of reading. On that reading it was an insult. |
refreshing | Pleasantly new or different. Her directness is refreshing. |
romance | Try to gain the love of; court. Elizabethan pastoral romances. |
script | Write a script for a play film or broadcast. Her neat tidy script. |
stagy | Excessively theatrical; exaggerated. A stagy melodramatic voice. |
storybook | A book containing a collection of stories (usually for children. It was a storybook finish to an illustrious career. |
write | Compose write and send a letter to someone. He couldn t read or write. |
writer | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay. Dickens was a prolific writer. |
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