NOVEL


Meaning of NOVEL in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ hardback , hardcover ( esp. AmE ), paperback

▪ debut

▪ first , second , etc.

a prize for the best first ~ of the year

▪ latest , new , recent

▪ unfinished , unpublished

▪ good , great

One day I'm going to write the great American ~.

▪ original

▪ acclaimed

his critically acclaimed ~

▪ famous

▪ classic

▪ literary

▪ best-selling , popular

▪ dime ( AmE , old-fashioned ), pulp , trashy

▪ contemporary , modern

▪ 19th-century , Victorian

▪ adult , children's

▪ autobiographical

▪ adventure , comic , epic , epistolary , graphic , historical , romantic , satirical

Samuel Richardson's ~s are all epistolary in form.

▪ fantasy , gothic , horror , sci-fi , science-fiction

▪ crime , detective , mystery , spy

… OF A NOVEL

▪ copy

I took a copy of a Graham Greene ~ on the train with me.

VERB + NOVEL

▪ produce , write

▪ publish

▪ read

▪ complete , finish

She completed her first ~ at the age of 53.

▪ inspire

the events that inspired the ~

▪ translate

▪ adapt

the process of adapting the ~ for television

▪ review

NOVEL + VERB

▪ be based on sth

The ~ was based on a true life story.

▪ be set , take place

The ~ was set in a small town in France.

PREPOSITION

▪ ~ about

a ~ about growing up

II.

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , sound

The plan sounded rather ~.

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ completely , totally , etc.

▪ relatively

▪ essentially

Novel is used with these nouns: ↑ approach , ↑ concept , ↑ context , ↑ feature , ↑ finding , ↑ idea , ↑ insight , ↑ method , ↑ phenomenon , ↑ situation , ↑ type

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .