Definition of novel | Bee Dictionary of English

n an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
n a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels
he burned all the novels
s original and of a kind not seen before
the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
s pleasantly new or different

This season's standout graphic novel focuses on one of the scariest of all horrors: high school.
The city found a novel way of disposing waste; it dumped the waste in a plant that generated electricity while consuming the dumped waste.
Clint Catalyst, also an associate producer who worked on scripted television and wrote several novels before joining the Top Model staff, says, "We're storytellers.

Rexahn awarded U.S. patent for novel anti-cancer compounds
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals announced that it has significantly expanded its intellectual property around a series of novel anti-tumor quinazoline compounds. Rexahn has been issued patent No. 8,404,698 from ...
June 17, 2013 - Theflyonthewall.com via Yahoo! Finance
Novel vaccine platform to treat Japanese red cedar tree allergy raises $3M
A biotechnology company developing a novel vaccine platform to treat people who are allergic to the Japanese Red Cedar and Mountain Cedar trees which holds the potential to combat other allergies has rounded up $3 million, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Immunomic Therapeutics Inc., a Hershey, Pennsylvania-based [...]
June 14, 2013 - MedCity News
Novel biomarkers improve diagnosis in rheumatoid arthritis
( European League Against Rheumatism ) Data presented at EULAR 2013, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, show that novel antibody biomarkers could significantly improve diagnosis in rheumatoid arthritis.
June 14, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Barack Obama in RTT News
Obama, at the time, said he had "proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election."
Kevin Macdonald in Seattle Post Intelligencer
It's not a mainstream film I'm going to make, it's an experimental film,Macdonald said. "I don't think that everybody can write a great novel, and I don't believe that everybody can paint a great picture. But in this instance, people can...
Salman Rushdie in CNN International
I am very disappointed to hear that my publishers, Random House, have canceled another author's novel, apparently because of their concerns about possible Islamic reprisals,Rushdie said Thursday in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "This...