SHORT STORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short story mean? 

• SHORT STORY (noun)
  The noun SHORT STORY has 1 sense:

1. a prose narrative shorter than a novel

  Familiarity information: SHORT STORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORT STORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prose narrative shorter than a novel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("short story" is a kind of...):

story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)

 Context examples 

The short stories were returned in similar fashion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Wiki-Wiki," his Hawaiian short story, was bought by Warren's Monthly for two hundred and fifty dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin gathered together a number of carbon copies of his short stories, hesitated a moment, then added his "Sea Lyrics."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was puzzled by countless short stories, written lightly and cleverly he confessed, but without vitality or reality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he tried, as an experiment, a short story, and before he broke his stride he had finished six short stories and despatched them to various magazines.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And yet the magazine short stories seemed intent on glorifying the Mr. Butlers, the sordid dollar- chasers, and the commonplace little love affairs of commonplace little men and women.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These two volumes comprised all the short stories he had written and which had received, or were receiving, serial publication.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A stream of short stories flowed from his pen, and he branched out into the easier forms of verse—the kind he saw printed in the magazines—though he lost his head and wasted two weeks on a tragedy in blank verse, the swift rejection of which, by half a dozen magazines, dumfounded him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)