no ‧ vel ‧ la /nəʊˈvelə $ noʊ-/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[ Date: 1900-2000 ; Language: Italian ; Origin: storia novella 'new story' , from novello 'new' , from Latin novellus ; ⇨ ↑ novel 2 ]
a story that is shorter than a novel, but longer than a ↑ short story