no‧vel‧la /nəʊˈvelə $ noʊ-/
noun [countable][
Date: 1900-2000;
Language: Italian;
Origin: storia novella 'new story', from novello 'new', from Latin novellus; ⇒ novel2]
a story that is shorter than a novel, but longer than a
short story [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲