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novella

short story

noun noh-VEL-lah Rare

Origin: Latin 'novella' (new things), feminine of 'novellus'

Also means

piece of news

Usage Note

Novella refers to a short prose narrative, shorter than a novel — Boccaccio's Decameron is the classic collection of novelle. In everyday speech it also means a news item or piece of news, though notizia is more common for the latter sense. The plural is regular: le novelle.

Examples

"Ho letto una novella di Pirandello."

Natural Translation

I read a short story by Pirandello.

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