Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A short novel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A short novel.
- n. In music, an instrumental piece of a free and romantic character, in which many themes are treated with more or less capricious variety; a romance or ballade. The term was first used by Schumann.
Wiktionary
- n. A short novel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A short novel; a novella.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a short novel
Examples
“In addition to the title novelette, The Great Bazaar and Other Stories contains a number of scenes not included in The Painted Man published in the US as The Warded Man as well as a glossary and a grimoire, making it an essential guide to one of the most exciting epic fantasy series currently being published.”
“Only one work, the title novelette “The Martian Way,” pertains to Mars.”
The Martian Way and Other Stories, a 1955 collection by Isaac Asimov
“This novelette is a tour de force of voice, music, and storytelling.”
“I think the novelette is attempting to be lingering and elegaic in feel.”
“The Djinn's Wife: this Hugo-winning novelette is a heartbreaking account of a love affair between a minor celebrity and a weakly godlike artificial intelligence.”
“So, yeah, a 10k novelette is around 40 hours of work, at least.”
“Now a novelette is defined by SFWA as a work of short fiction between 7,500 and 17,499 words.”
“The Rift" of Paul J. McAuley's novelette is the subject of a mountain climbing expedition in the Amazon basin.”
REVIEW: Infinity Plus - The Anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers
“And now I have to go start a short story that just finally gave me its first line*, and start two three articles, and work on a novel revision, and wonder what the heck the last scene of this other novelette is so I can finish the bloody thing, because it's been sitting on my desk partially written for MONTHS now.”
“BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Anthology of nine novellas and 1 novelette from the year 2004.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘novelette’.
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Prolagus Song quotation on enamour. Nov 12, 2008