'short story' definitions:
Definition of 'short story'
From: WordNet
noun
A prose narrative shorter than a novel
Synonyms of 'short story'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Bildungsroman,
- comic novel,
- detective novel,
- dime novel,
- dreadful,
- epistolary novel,
- erotic novel,
- Gothic novel,
- historical novel,
- nouvelle,
- novel,
- novel of character,
- novel of ideas,
- novel of incident,
- novel of manners,
- novel of sensibility,
- novelette,
- novella,
- penny dreadful,
- picaresque novel,
- pornographic novel,
- problem novel,
- proletarian novel,
- propaganda novel,
- psychological novel,
- regional novel,
- river novel,
- roman,
- roman a clef,
- roman-fleuve,
- satirical novel,
- science-fiction novel,
- sentimental novel,
- shilling shocker,
- short-short,
- sociological novel,
- storiette,
- stream-of-consciousness novel,
- thesis novel,
- vignette