Collocations for "novel"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "novel" in context.
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novel
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [crime, fiction, romance, comedy, suspense, mystery, children's] novels
- a [paperback, hardback] novel
- a [thrilling, riveting, moving, rip-roaring] novel
- his [best-selling, latest, new] novel
- a writer of [crime] novels
- is the master of [crime] novels
- [rate, review, publish, serialize] a novel
- [pen, write, draft, edit] a novel
- have you read any good novels (lately)?
- the novel is set in [Africa, the middle ages, the future]
- a novel writer
- is a novel [idea, thought, solution]
- what a novel [idea]!
- has [many, some] novel features
- (took) a novel approach to
'novel' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Russian
- Spanish
- abstract
- adapt
- advance
- approach
- author
- bang
- base
- bash
- beginning
- blood
- bookshelf
- brilliant
- climax
- cloak
- coming
- companion
- compass
- copy
- craft
- dazzling
- dedicate
- dense
- end
- entitle
- faithfully
- fantasy
- fascinating
- foreword
- genre
- ghost
- graphic
- gripping
- groundbreaking
- imaginative
- intriguing
- juicy
- labor
- lace
- lady
- language
- latest
- leisure
- length
- machine
- many
- mirror
- mode
- murder