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no·vel·la    Audio Help   [noh-vel-uh] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -vel·las, -vel·le    Audio Help   [-vel-ee, -vel-ey] Pronunciation Key.
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; < It; see novel1]
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novella: see novel.

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