plural novellas or novelle
nō-ˈve-lē 
1
plural novelle
: a story with a compact and pointed plot
2
plural novellas
: a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel
Examples of novella in a Sentence
pressed for time, many English teachers have their students read the one novella among the novelist's works
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Additional books in the immensely popular series include A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, the novella A Court of Frost and Starlight and A Court of Silver Flames.
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Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 14 Feb. 2025
The novella draws inspiration from all-time classic Bringing Up Baby, which puts paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) in the path of wacky heiress Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) and her pet leopard, Baby.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
The factual novella lacks the self-soothing aspects of the self-eulogizing fantasy, while telling the same tale, with Hemingway acting, by his frantic verbal participation, as its co-author, contributing to what is at once a parody and, in another way, the superior realization of his own book.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
As a propellant for the story and its 97-minute runtime, switching from a sci-fi-tinged chiller to a crime caper makes sense; the genre advances Companion past its novella premise into something more robust.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
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Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 14 Feb. 2025
The novella draws inspiration from all-time classic Bringing Up Baby, which puts paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) in the path of wacky heiress Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) and her pet leopard, Baby.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
The factual novella lacks the self-soothing aspects of the self-eulogizing fantasy, while telling the same tale, with Hemingway acting, by his frantic verbal participation, as its co-author, contributing to what is at once a parody and, in another way, the superior realization of his own book.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
As a propellant for the story and its 97-minute runtime, switching from a sci-fi-tinged chiller to a crime caper makes sense; the genre advances Companion past its novella premise into something more robust.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Novella.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novella. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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novella
noun
no·vel·la
nō-ˈvel-ə
: a work of fiction falling between a short story and a novel in length and complexity
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