novelette

[ nov-uh-let ]
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noun
  1. a brief novel or long short story.

Origin of novelette

1
First recorded in 1805–15; novel1 + -ette

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How to use novelette in a sentence

  • The Tall T, from a Leonard novelette, starred Randolph Scott and Richard Boone.

  • And her old aunt is a regular tartar; I dont suppose there ever was such a typical female guardian outside a penny novelette.

    The Romance of His Life | Mary Cholmondeley
  • As a parody of how some quite accomplished but unsympathetic pianist performed the novelette it was beyond all praise.

    Arundel | Edward Frederic Benson
  • Mr. McClure tried to beguile her into writing him a “novelette,” or a “romance of Bible times,” but Mrs. Ward was not to be moved.

    The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward | Janet Penrose Trevelyan
  • I dream of a novel, or a novelette, to be constructed upon totally novel principles; but the outlook is not encouraging.

British Dictionary definitions for novelette

novelette

/ (ˌnɒvəˈlɛt) /


noun
  1. an extended prose narrative story or short novel

  2. a novel that is regarded as being slight, trivial, or sentimental

  1. a short piece of lyrical music, esp one for the piano

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