Usually means: Brief, focused narrative; condensed plot.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word short story:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. short story: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. short story: Merriam-Webster
  3. short story: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. short story: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. short story: Collins English Dictionary
  6. short story: Vocabulary.com
  7. Short-Story, Short-story, short-story: Wordnik
  8. short story: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. short story: Wiktionary
  10. short story: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. short story: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. short-story, short story: Dictionary.com
  13. Short-story, Short story: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. short story: Rhymezone
  15. short story: FreeDictionary.org
  16. short story: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. short story: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Short-story, The short story, short story: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. short story: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. short story: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (short story)

▸ noun:  A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.

Similar:
short short story, novella, short short, storyette, storylet, storiette, light novel, slash fiction, B-story, story, more...

Opposite:
novel, long story, novelette

Types:
flash fiction, microfiction, sudden fiction, prose poem, vignette, more...

Phrases:
short short story, short short story, short story writer, short story writers, Short story collection, more...

Adjectives:
potted, auteurist, episodic, transpontine, docudramatic, documentary, storybook, essayistic, semidocumentary, miscellanist, readerly

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Similar:
short short story, novella, short short, storyette, storylet, storiette, light novel, slash fiction, B-story, story, more...

Opposite:
novel, long story, novelette

Types:
flash fiction, microfiction, sudden fiction, prose poem, vignette, more...

Phrases:
short short story, short short story, short story writer, short story writers, Short story collection, Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Short story cycle, a short story, more...

Adjectives:
potted, auteurist, episodic, transpontine, docudramatic, documentary, storybook, essayistic, semidocumentary, miscellanist, readerly



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