Explore Novelette through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like novella or novel. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Novelette meaning
- A short novel, synonymous with novella.
- A story longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella.
- A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano.
Using Novelette
- The main meaning on this page is: A short novel, synonymous with novella. | A story longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella. | A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano.
- Useful related words include: novella, novel.
- In the example corpus, novelette often appears in combinations such as: the novelette, novelette was.
Context around Novelette
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Novelette
- In this selection, "novelette" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ellison, libreto, best, satan, burning and sector stand out and add context to how "novelette" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an original novelette by skyler and becomes libreto novelette or short. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "novelette" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with novelette
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Novelette and last story from the Laird Cunningham Series. (9 words)
It won the Best Novelette Nebula Award (1983) and Hugo Award (1984). (12 words)
Novelette not included in any of the Hal Clement's compilations to date. (13 words)
In November the same year New Worlds published White's novelette Sector General, and editor John ("Ted") Carnell requested more stories set in the same universe, founding the series for which White is known best. (35 words)
Another uncollected Ellison novelette, "Satan Is My Ally", was the cover story on the May 1957 issue of Fantastic Science Fiction Ellison wrote "The Wife Factory" for Fantastic under the house name "Clyde Mitchell". (34 words)
Material used from prior work * The Perky Pat and Connie Companion products were introduced in the novelette The Days of Perky Pat published in 1963. (25 words)
Example sentences (14)
Another uncollected Ellison novelette, "Satan Is My Ally", was the cover story on the May 1957 issue of Fantastic Science Fiction Ellison wrote "The Wife Factory" for Fantastic under the house name "Clyde Mitchell".
Domo (house) becomes dometo (cottage), and libro (book) becomes libreto (novelette or short story).
Gibson himself coined the term "cyberspace" in his novelette " Burning Chrome ", published in 1982 by Omni magazine.
In addition to Timescape, he won the Nebula for the novelette "If the Stars Are Gods" (with Eklund).
In November the same year New Worlds published White's novelette Sector General, and editor John ("Ted") Carnell requested more stories set in the same universe, founding the series for which White is known best.
It won the Best Novelette Nebula Award (1983) and Hugo Award (1984).
Martin was nominated for two Hugos that year but lost both awards, for the novelette ".
Material used from prior work * The Perky Pat and Connie Companion products were introduced in the novelette The Days of Perky Pat published in 1963.
Novelette and last story from the Laird Cunningham Series.
Novelette not included in any of the Hal Clement's compilations to date.
Ron Miller's cover on the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, featuring MacLean's novelette "Incommunicado".
The novelette was originally written to advertise Fuerle's 1986 economics treatise The Pure Logic of Choice.
The novelette was rejected; Macmillan thought the story was too short for book form.
Tor.com An original novelette (by Skyler White only) taking place directly after the events of the novel.
Common combinations with novelette
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: