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Plural of novella

regular plural

The plural of novella is novellas or novelle.

Forms of novella

Singularnovella /nəˈvɛlə/
Pluralnovellas
novelle
Countablecountable

Plural of novella by meaning

  1. a short novel or long short story.: novellas or novelle
  2. synonym of novel (“a new legal constitution”): novellae

Novellas and novelle in a sentence

  • It should be mentioned that sometimes, especially in the historical novels and novellas by Jaan Kross, the old Tallinn is somewhat Estonified, much like Vilnius is Lithuanized in other places.2015, Urban Semiotics: the City as a Cultural-Historical Phenomen, Tallinn University Press / Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry Estonify

Meaning of novella

  1. noun A short novel or long short story.
  2. noun Synonym of novel (“a new legal constitution”).

Full definition of novella

Questions about the plural of novella

What is the plural of novella?
The plural of novella is novellas or novelle.
Which is correct, novellas or novelle?
Both are used. novellas is the more common of the two in English writing.
Is novella countable?
Novella is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: novella (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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