ショウセツ
Meanings
Noun
1. novel; story; (work of) fiction
Pitch accent
ショ
ウセツ
Composed of
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
Used in vocabulary (62 in total)
novelist; fiction writer
mystery novel; detective novel; whodunit
love romance; love story; romance; romance story; romantic fiction
erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel
(full-length) novel; long novel
cell phone novel; literary work originally written on a cellular phone
cell phone novel; literary work originally written on a cellular phone
historical novel
I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
adventure story; novel of adventure
novel for young girls
historical novel
Gothic novel; supernatural horror novel
truth is stranger than fiction
truth is stranger than fiction
novelization; turning into a novel
truth is stranger than fiction
truth is stranger than fiction
serial; serialized novel; serialised novel
novel for the masses; popular fiction; pulp
contemporary novel; modern novel
novel serialized in a newspaper
fantasy novel; fantastic tale
crime novel; crime fiction
novella; short novel
morning soap opera; morning television serial
first-person novel; novel written in the first person
roman-fleuve; long novel; epic novel
serious novel; genuinely attempted novel
novel about one's education, spiritual growth, etc.; Bildungsroman
political novel
science fiction; sci-fi; fantasy fiction
novel depicting the author's personal life; I-novel
psychological novel
detective story; police novel
novel depicting customs and manners of the day
novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman
novel written in colloquial Chinese
fictional biography; biographical novel
novel written in epistolary style
experimental novel
sentimental novel
swashbuckling stories; martial arts fiction; chivalric knight novels; wuxia xiaoshuo
allegory; allegorical tale
bizarre story (novel)
socially aware novel
(Edo-period) didactic novel or fiction
sultry novel; suggestive story
Examples (113 in total)
This novel is boring.
This novel is difficult to understand.
Tom has started to write a novel.