"novella" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /nəˈvɛlə/ [UK], /nəʊˈvɛlə/ [UK], /nəˈvɛlə/ [US], /noʊˈvɛlə/ [US] Forms: novellas [plural], novelle [plural]
enPR: nəvĕlʹə [US] Rhymes: -ɛlə Etymology: Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*new- (new)}}, {{bor|en|it|novella}} Italian novella, {{doublet|en|novel}} Doublet of novel Head templates: {{en-noun|s|novelle}} novella (plural novellas or novelle)
  1. A short novel or long short story. Synonyms: novelette
    Sense id: en-novella-en-noun-zao-nXVA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 46 54
  2. (historical) Synonym of novel (“new legal constitution in Ancient Rome”) Tags: historical Categories (topical): Literature Synonyms: novel [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-novella-en-noun-VTEBc8Gv Disambiguation of Literature: 41 59 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: e-novella Related terms: novel Translations (short novel): novel·leta [feminine] (Catalan), 中篇小說 (Chinese Mandarin), 中篇小说 (zhōngpiān xiǎoshuō) (Chinese Mandarin), novela [feminine] (Czech), novelle (Dutch), stuttsøga [feminine] (Faroese), lyhytromaani (Finnish), nouvelle [feminine] (French), court roman [masculine] (French), Novelle [feminine] (German), νουβέλα (nouvéla) [feminine] (Greek), elbeszélés (Hungarian), kisregény (Hungarian), novella [feminine] (Italian), romanzo breve (Italian), 短編小説 (tanpen-shōsetsu) (alt: たんぺんしょうせつ) (Japanese), នវប្រលោមលោកខ្លី (nak vak brolom lok klei) (Khmer), 중편소설 (jungpyeonsoseol) (Korean), новела (novela) [feminine] (Macedonian), novèla (Occitan), novela [feminine] (Portuguese), nuvelă [feminine] (Romanian), по́весть (póvestʹ) [feminine] (Russian), novela [feminine] (Spanish), kortroman [common-gender] (Swedish), нове́ла (novéla) [feminine] (Ukrainian), по́вість (póvistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tiểu thuyết ngắn (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'short novel': 47 53

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.