novelette

[US]/nɒvə'let/
[UK]/ˌnɑvə'lɛt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a short novel or long short story.
Word Forms

Example Sentences

Vagarious Narrative of a Painful History——Comment on the novelette "Memory of the Stomach"

Novelette coat is literary classic of Gogol, standing for his typical style.

She wrote a captivating novelette.

He enjoys reading romantic novelettes.

The author published a series of novelettes.

I prefer reading novelettes over lengthy novels.

She is working on a mystery novelette.

The novelette explores themes of love and loss.

He won an award for his science fiction novelette.

The novelette was adapted into a successful film.

Readers praised the novelette for its engaging plot.

The novelette is set in a dystopian future.

Real-world Examples

Among the rest he found a novelette in one volume, THE COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 1)

The longer spelling – l-e-t-t-e – only forms a diminutive in a few English words, like novelette, a short novel.

Source: Advanced Daily Grammar

Speaking of ekphrasis, Max Porter brings us The Death of Francis Bacon (Faber, January), a luminous novelette composed of seven pictures described in prose that seeks to elide the boundary between literature and visual art.

Source: Selected English short passages

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