Definition of Novels

1. Noun. (plural of novel) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Novels

1. novel [n] - See also: novel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Novels

novelizations
novelize
novelized
novelizer
novelizers
novelizes
novelizing
novella
novellae
novellas
novelle
novellike
novelly
novelries
novelry
novels (current term)
novelties
novelty
novelty shop
novelty song
novelty theory
november
novemdecillion
novemdecillions
novena
novenae
novenaries
novenary
novenas
novene

Literary usage of Novels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (1904)
"He was buried with great honour in the family vaults in Dryburgh Abbey. II. THE WAVERLEY novels ( From the first these novels were successful. ..."

2. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"novels arc sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them—almost all women ... The novels in this List, except where otherwise designated, ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"Among his seventeen long novels, Dickens held "David Copperfield" to be his ... Several of his "propagandist*' novels were attacks upon evils of his time ..."

4. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1917)
"But the only other novels printed in America before the Declaration of ... The Southern and Middle colonies may have read more novels than did New England, ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1827)
"Justinian never collected them himself: the nine collations, the legal standard of modern tribunals, consist of ninety-eight novels; but the number was ..."

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