nova

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Bossa nova is a style evolved from samba but is very soft, with minimal percussion.

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  1. noun A star that suddenly becomes much brighter and then gradually returns to its original brightness over a period of weeks to years.

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  • Topaz swells like a nova, enveloping them in the now familiar ice-fire and beyond that, showing them an opening of some sort, egress from the stultifying boundary of conscious self...emergence, freedom. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
  • I saw that rock—the seetee rock that flamed up like a nova, when nothing the size of your fist was near enough to collide, and then went out like a light you turn off and started streaking away from the Sun. —  ASTOUNDING
  • His fleet was caught in a nova, the gravitors got in resonating synchrony, something happened, but it didn't have anything to do with us. —  Analog February, 1971
  • As most geeks know, a nova is that cloudburst of energy emitted from a star temporarily increasing its brightness. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • With this collection delving exclusively into the worlds of classic ballads and bossa nova, the singer is in an even quieter place. —  Vindy.com stories: Vindy.com Newswatch » Breaking News from around Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana Ohio
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  1. New Latin (stēlla) nova, new (star), nova, feminine of Latin novus, new; see newo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, ‘new,’ sc. stella, ‘star.’
 

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/ˈnoʊvə/
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