above | (noun) an earlier section of a written text | - |
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alcove | (noun) a small recess opening off a larger room | Synonyms: bay |
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apojove | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter | - |
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approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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beloved | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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clove | (noun) spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground | - |
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(noun) one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb | Synonyms: garlic clove |
(noun) moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves | Synonyms: clove tree, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum, Syzygium aromaticum |
(noun) aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice | - |
clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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cookstove | (noun) a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
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countermove | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: counterattack |
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cove | (noun) a small inlet | - |
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(noun) small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain | - |
coven | (noun) an assembly of witches; usually 13 witches | - |
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covenant | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, concordat |
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(noun) (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return | - |
cover | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: covering, masking, screening |
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(noun) fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations | Synonyms: covering fire |
(noun) a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent) | - |
(noun) a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else | Synonyms: cover song, cover version |
(noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: blanket |
(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, covert, screen |
(noun) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) | Synonyms: top |
(noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, binding, book binding |
(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: covering, natural covering |
(noun) a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink | Synonyms: cover charge |
coverage | (noun) the extent to which something is covered | - |
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(noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: reportage, reporting |
(noun) the total amount and type of insurance carried | Synonyms: insurance coverage |
coverall | (noun) a loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing | - |
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covering | (noun) the act of protecting something by covering it | - |
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(noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, coating |
(noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, masking, screening |
(noun) an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) | - |
(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: cover, natural covering |
coverlet | (noun) a decorative bedspread (usually quilted) | - |
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covert | (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
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(noun) a flock of coots | - |
covertness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: hiddenness |
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covetousness | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, greed, rapacity |
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(noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, cupidity |
(noun) an envious eagerness to possess something | - |
covey | (noun) a small flock of grouse or partridge | - |
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(noun) a small collection of people | - |
crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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(noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
(noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
(noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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(noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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(noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
(noun) something that is discovered | - |
(noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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dove | (noun) any of numerous small pigeons | - |
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(noun) an emblem of peace | - |
(noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: squab |
(noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: peacenik |
dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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drove | (noun) a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | Synonyms: drove chisel |
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(noun) a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | - |
(noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: horde, swarm |
drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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extrovert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
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flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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flyover | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flypast |
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(noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: overpass |
fovea | (noun) area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute | Synonyms: fovea centralis |
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foxglove | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: digitalis |
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glove | (noun) handwear: covers the hand and wrist | - |
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(noun) the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball | Synonyms: baseball glove, baseball mitt, mitt |
(noun) boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing | Synonyms: boxing glove |
governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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(noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
(noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
(noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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(noun) the head of a state government | - |
governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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groove | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: rut |
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(noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: vallecula |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: channel |
groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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(noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
grove | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: orchard, plantation, woodlet |
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(noun) a small growth of trees without underbrush | - |
groveler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler |
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groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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(noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
(noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
hardcover | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
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holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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(noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
hovea | (noun) any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets | Synonyms: purple pea |
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hovel | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty |
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hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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(noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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(noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
(noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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(noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
(noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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ladylove | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: dulcinea |
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landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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love | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love |
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(noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: passion |
(noun) a strong positive emotion of regard and affection | - |
(noun) a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction | Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, sweetheart, sweetie |
(noun) a score of zero in tennis or squash | - |
lovebird | (noun) small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates | - |
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(noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
loveliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, fairness |
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lovely | (noun) a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model | Synonyms: cover girl, pin-up |
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lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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(noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
(noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
loveseat | (noun) small sofa that seats two people | Synonyms: love seat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis |
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lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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(noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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move | (noun) the act of deciding to do something | - |
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(noun) the act of changing your residence or place of business | Synonyms: relocation |
(noun) (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game | - |
(noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, movement |
(noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, movement |
movement | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, move |
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(noun) the act of changing the location of something | - |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
(noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, move |
(noun) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | - |
(noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, trend |
(noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | - |
(noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: motion |
(noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: front, social movement |
(noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion |
(noun) a euphemism for defecation | Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
mover | (noun) a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another | Synonyms: moving company, public mover, removal company, removal firm |
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(noun) someone who moves | - |
(noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: proposer |
(noun) workman employed by a moving company | - |
novel | (noun) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction | - |
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(noun) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story | - |
novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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novelisation | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelization |
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novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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novelization | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelisation |
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novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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(noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
(noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
(noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
novena | (noun) a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days | - |
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