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Novel vs. Known — What's the Difference?

Novel vs. Known — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Novel and Known

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian: novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new".Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels.

Known

Past participle of know

Novel

A fictional prose narrative of considerable length, typically having a plot that is unfolded by the actions, speech, and thoughts of the characters.

Known

Recognized, familiar, or within the scope of knowledge
The known world
Plants little known to western science

Novel

The literary genre represented by novels.
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Known

Past participle of know.

Novel

Strikingly new, unusual, or different.

Known

Proved or generally recognized
The only known case.
A known authority.

Novel

Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

Known

Something that is known
In this instance, the only known is our actual profit margin.

Novel

Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

Known

Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
He was a known pickpocket.

Novel

A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

Known

Accepted, familiar, researched.

Novel

(historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.

Known

Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.

Novel

(obsolete) A novelty; something new.

Known

(algebra) A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.

Novel

A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

Known

Inflection of know

Novel

Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.

Known

Of Know.

Novel

That which is new or unusual; a novelty.

Known

Apprehended with certainty;
A known quantity
The limits of the known world
A musician known throughout the world
A known criminal

Novel

News; fresh tidings.
Some came of curiosity to hear some novels.

Novel

A fictitious tale or narrative, longer than a short story, having some degree of complexity and development of characters; it is usually organized as a time sequence of events, and is commonly intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and often of love.

Novel

A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

Novel

A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction;
His bookcases were filled with nothing but novels
He burned all the novels

Novel

Of a kind not seen before;
The computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem

Novel

Pleasantly novel or different;
Common sense of a most refreshing sort

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