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单词 novelette
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Definition of novelette in English:

novelette

noun nɒvəˈlɛtˌnɑvəˈlɛt
derogatory
  • A short novel, typically one that is light and romantic or sentimental in character.

    〈主贬〉中篇言情小说

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Those are the short stories, here are the novelettes.
    • Ayn Rand wrote three novels, at least seven nonfiction books, a novelette and two plays.
    • The novelette is well translated and available at Amazon.com.
    • Sophie Dahl's novelette was the straw that broke Matthew's back.
    • Lazily the nurse laid her romance novelette down and got up.
    • The original novelette, The Bicentennial Man, was one of Asimov's finest pieces of work.
    • We're trying to discern the difference between a short story, a vignette, a novella, and a novelette.
    • For the rest of his long, innovative and hugely prolific career, he drew inspiration from the comics, novelties, magazines, toys and cheap novelettes collected over the years with magpie insatiability.
    • The novelette aside, the overall quality isn't quite up to par with Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, but it's better than I expected.
    • That first love can exert a powerful force, both constructive and destructive, is the central theme of Jens Christian Grøndahl's excellent novelette Virginia.
    • The trend in films and in the increasingly popular American pulp novelette is towards pornography and sex as part of a whole picture of violence.
    • Holden's next appearance was in a 90-page novelette finished in 1946, which, Salinger was unhappy with and did not publish, even though it had been accepted by a publisher.
    • In the marketplace of feature films, they've sort of become like novelettes - quaint-seeming, tied to a different era when everything was simpler.
    • There was a time when only a section of the women population were addicted to the novelettes churned out by several scintillating weeklies.
    • Drawing on these experiences, Webb's novelettes focus on the leisure-time activities of upper-class society in London, Paris, and Cannes.
    • The first of these, published in 1846, bore the title of a featured novelette, Aunt Patty's Scrap Bag.
    • The denigrated genres are there in abundance: romance, novelettes, westerns, ‘hard-boiled’ and so on.
    • My current work in progress is a novelette about the death of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, so it's exciting for me to be behind the scenes of a real theatre.
    • Often her class held the suspense of a mystery novelette.
    • After a couple of novelettes, she started writing short stories for all leading publications in Malayalam and brought out her first compilation of short stories as ‘Nirmalyam’ in 1994.

Derivatives

  • novelettish

  • adjective ˌnɒvəˈlɛtɪʃˌnɑvəˈlɛdɪʃ
    derogatory
    • Disliking the novelettish type of subjects the company made, he left and, after an interlude in India, joined G.B. Samuelson as a scriptwriter.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Beverly has spent her life banishing romance, all that novelettish stuff.
      • The High Command remained constricted by its novelettish story of murder, blackmail, and family secrets, but the verve of Dickinson's direction still shone through.
      • Many have seen the work as escapist or cloyingly sentimental - ‘novelettish and pretty-pretty, ‘as one eminent Straussian described it.

Rhymes

abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette

Definition of novelette in US English:

novelette

nounˌnävəˈletˌnɑvəˈlɛt
derogatory
  • A short novel, typically one that is light and romantic or sentimental in character.

    〈主贬〉中篇言情小说

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a couple of novelettes, she started writing short stories for all leading publications in Malayalam and brought out her first compilation of short stories as ‘Nirmalyam’ in 1994.
    • The original novelette, The Bicentennial Man, was one of Asimov's finest pieces of work.
    • The first of these, published in 1846, bore the title of a featured novelette, Aunt Patty's Scrap Bag.
    • In the marketplace of feature films, they've sort of become like novelettes - quaint-seeming, tied to a different era when everything was simpler.
    • The trend in films and in the increasingly popular American pulp novelette is towards pornography and sex as part of a whole picture of violence.
    • Those are the short stories, here are the novelettes.
    • For the rest of his long, innovative and hugely prolific career, he drew inspiration from the comics, novelties, magazines, toys and cheap novelettes collected over the years with magpie insatiability.
    • The novelette is well translated and available at Amazon.com.
    • Lazily the nurse laid her romance novelette down and got up.
    • The denigrated genres are there in abundance: romance, novelettes, westerns, ‘hard-boiled’ and so on.
    • Often her class held the suspense of a mystery novelette.
    • The novelette aside, the overall quality isn't quite up to par with Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, but it's better than I expected.
    • Sophie Dahl's novelette was the straw that broke Matthew's back.
    • My current work in progress is a novelette about the death of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, so it's exciting for me to be behind the scenes of a real theatre.
    • There was a time when only a section of the women population were addicted to the novelettes churned out by several scintillating weeklies.
    • We're trying to discern the difference between a short story, a vignette, a novella, and a novelette.
    • Ayn Rand wrote three novels, at least seven nonfiction books, a novelette and two plays.
    • That first love can exert a powerful force, both constructive and destructive, is the central theme of Jens Christian Grøndahl's excellent novelette Virginia.
    • Holden's next appearance was in a 90-page novelette finished in 1946, which, Salinger was unhappy with and did not publish, even though it had been accepted by a publisher.
    • Drawing on these experiences, Webb's novelettes focus on the leisure-time activities of upper-class society in London, Paris, and Cannes.
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