novelette
Americannoun
noun
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an extended prose narrative story or short novel
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a novel that is regarded as being slight, trivial, or sentimental
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a short piece of lyrical music, esp one for the piano
Etymology
Origin of novelette
Example Sentences
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You know the species because androids have been a mainstay of science fiction since before Isaac Asimov coined the “three laws of robotics” for a novelette published in 1942.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Both novels are set in the “punch-card-punk” world that Kowal established in her 2013 novelette, “The Lady Astronaut of Mars.”
From The Verge ● Sep. 18, 2018
His is almost like a novelette, of course, with these words engraved by the image of a palmetto tree and crescent: “My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2017
In a time when some of our finest novelists have turned to the novelette length — Philip Roth, Ian McEwan — Barnes outshines them all.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
The scene of the novelette bears the date of 1841, and Paris, especially in many of what are known as the newer parts, has changed but little since.
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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