- different from anything known before; new, interesting and often seeming slightly strange
- a novel feature
- Job-sharing is still a novel concept and it will take a while for employers to get used to it.
- The plan sounded rather novel.
- It was an American who came up with the novel idea of drive-in restaurants.
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Word Originadjective late Middle English (in the sense ‘recent’): from Old French, from Latin novellus, from novus ‘new’.
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