Novels

/ ˈnɒvəlz /

plural noun

1. Roman law the new statutes of Justinian and succeeding emperors supplementing the Institutes, Digest, and Code: now forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis

Word History and Origins

Origin of Novels¹

Latin Novellae ( constitūtiōnēs ) new (laws)

Example Sentences

But then, as this polymath wag continues, “The truth to us philosophers, Mr. Crouch, is always an interim judgment … Unlike mystery novels, life does not guarantee a denouement; and if it came, how would one know whether to believe it?”

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Gaddis captures something that most novels about business don’t: that work is about talk.

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That warning had come from the independent producer of the two BBC dramatisations of her novels.

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Welty’s novels and short stories are still celebrated for their richly described landscapes of her native South and their equally vivid view of the inner lives of her characters.

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She also cooked up the idea to improvise some Elvish, the fictional language of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels.

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