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
Your Lady Astronaut novels were an outgrowth of your original novelette, “The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” originally published in 2013.
From The Verge • Sep. 18, 2018
“It appears as though the novelette was unfinished business for her.”
From Washington Times • Jun. 17, 2014
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
“With One Coin for Fee”, novelette in Experiment, Coward-McCann 1938, 1939, 1940.
From Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
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