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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His novella was originally published in 2003 as part of a collection of stories.
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Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 23 June 2024
The series, which is based on George R.R. Martin’s novella, also stars Dexter Sol Ansell (ITV’s Emmerdale) as Egg, Dunk’s bald young squire.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 June 2024
The novella was originally published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine in 1979.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
The Last Life, follows another family of French Algerians who scatter across the globe, and 2006’s novella The Professor’s History is set at the caves of Dahra, the site of a horrific French colonial massacre of Algerians in 1845.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 7 May 2024
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Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 23 June 2024
The series, which is based on George R.R. Martin’s novella, also stars Dexter Sol Ansell (ITV’s Emmerdale) as Egg, Dunk’s bald young squire.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 June 2024
The novella was originally published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine in 1979.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
The Last Life, follows another family of French Algerians who scatter across the globe, and 2006’s novella The Professor’s History is set at the caves of Dahra, the site of a horrific French colonial massacre of Algerians in 1845.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 7 May 2024
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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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