a short novel
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a short novel
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.a prose narrative shorter than a novel
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre, Fiction.a style of expressing yourself in writing
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre.a style of expressing yourself in writing
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre.prose writing that is not fictional
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre.prose writing that is not fictional
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre.a style of expressing yourself in writing
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Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of am…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of deta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.language or humor that is down-to-earth; "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of sever…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.the literary genre of works intended for the theater
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genre, fast-paced, science, fiction, involving.Slow-paced.
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