word-vault/dist/data/cards/no/novel.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "novel",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which the characters and events are usually imaginary",
            "labels": "(US English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to write/publish/read a novel"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**detective/historical/romantic novels**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the novels of Jane Austen"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her **latest novel** is set in Cornwall."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **best-selling novel**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Highsmith's **debut novel** was a bestseller in 1949."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her first novel was finally accepted for publication."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I took a copy of a Graham Greene novel on the train with me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One day I'm going to write the great American novel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Samuel Richardson's novels are all epistolary in form."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She completed her first novel at the age of 53."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The novel was based on a true life story."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The novel was set in a small town in France."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a novel about growing up"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a prize for the best first novel of the year"
                },
                {
                    "text": "adapting the novel for television"
                },
                {
                    "text": "his critically acclaimed novel"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the events that inspired the novel"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His first novel was published in 1934."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["hardback", "hardcover", "paperback"],
                "… of a novel": ["copy"],
                "verb + novel": ["produce", "write", "publish"],
                "novel + verb": ["be based on something", "be set", "take place"],
                "preposition": ["novel about"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the type of literature that novels represent",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The novel is the most adaptable of all literary forms."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnɒvl/",
                "audio": "no/novel/novel__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnɑːvl/",
                "audio": "no/novel/novel__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun mid 16th cent.: from Italian novella (storia) ‘new (story)’, feminine of novello ‘new’, from Latin novellus, from novus ‘new’. The word is also found from late Middle English until the 18th cent. in the sense ‘a novelty, a piece of news’, from Old French novelle, from Latin novellus, from novus ‘new’."
}