different between novel vs current

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: n?v??l, IPA^(key): /?n?vl?/
• (US) enPR: näv??l, IPA^(key): /?n?v?l/
• Hyphenation: novel
• Rhymes: -?v?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English novel, from Old French novel (“new, fresh, recent, recently made or done, strange, rare”) (modern nouvel, nouveau), from Latin novellus (“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus (“new”). Doublet of nouveau.

Adjective

novel (comparative more novel, superlative most novel)

1. Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new

2. Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

   Synonym: unusual

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Usage notes

• Said of ideas, ways, etc.

Derived terms

• novelly

Related terms

• novelty

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novella

Noun

novel (plural novels)

1. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]
2. (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. [from 16th c.]

   • merry tales […] such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.

Derived terms

• novelisation, novelization
• novelist

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: nobhail

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English novel, from Old French novelle, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

1. (obsolete) A novelty; something new. [15th-18th c.]

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

1. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. [from 17th c.]

Anagrams

• Loven, Venlo

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch novelle, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nov?l]
• Hyphenation: no?vèl

Noun

novel (first-person possessive novelku, second-person possessive novelmu, third-person possessive novelnya)

1. (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

   Synonym: roman

Hyponyms

Derived terms

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Further reading

• “novel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

novel

1. Alternative form of navel

Old French

Alternative forms

• nuvel (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin novellus, from novus.

Adjective

novel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular novele)

1. new

Declension

Antonyms

• viel, ancien

Related terms

• novele
• novelté

Descendants

• ? Middle English: novel
  • English: novel
• Middle French: nouveau
  • French: nouveau
• Norman: nouvieau
• Walloon: novea

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• novelh

Etymology

From Latin novellus. Compare Old French novel.

Adjective

novel m (feminine singular novela, masculine plural novels, feminine plural novelas)

1. new

Descendants

• Catalan: novell
• Occitan: novèl, novèu, navèth

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan novell, from Latin novellus. Doublet of novillo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?bel/, [no???el]

Adjective

novel (plural noveles)

1. novel, new

Noun

novel m or f (plural noveles)

1. newbie, green

Related terms

• nuevo

English

Etymology

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere, present active infinitive of curr? (“I run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/, /?k???nt/
• (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)

Noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
2. the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.

   Synonyms: flow, stream

3. (electricity) the time rate of flow of electric charge.

   • Symbol: I (inclined upper case letter "I")
   • Units:

   SI: ampere (A)

   CGS: esu/second (esu/s)

   Synonym: electric current

4. a tendency or a course of events

   Synonyms: flow, stream, tendency

Derived terms

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Translations

Adjective

current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)

1. existing or occurring at the moment

   Synonyms: present; see also Thesaurus:present

   Antonyms: future, past

2. generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.

   Synonyms: fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

   Antonyms: out-of-date, unfashionable; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

3. (obsolete) running or moving rapidly

   • Lik to the corrant fyr that renneth
     Upon a corde

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

   Synonym: speeding

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Curtner

Latin

Verb

current

1. third-person plural future active indicative of curr?