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robinsonade

Syllables: rob·in·so·nadeUK/ˌɹɒbɪnsəˈneɪd/US/ˌɹɑbɪnsəˈneɪd/

robinsonade noun: a genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.

Noun (1)

robinsonade (plural robinsonades)

  1. A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.
    • Much, perhaps most, Minecraft fiction follows the robinsonade template, emphasizing the day-to-day life of a character, including nonhuman characters, striving to survive and thrive in a recognizably Minecraftian world by utilizing its resources.2020, Michael T. Wilson, “Minecraft Fiction”, in Anne H. Stevens, Molly C. O’Donnell, editors, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN

Noun (2) capitalized: Robinsonade

Robinsonade (plural Robinsonades)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of robinsonade.
    • The individual and isolated hunter and fisherman, with whom Smith and Ricardo begin, belongs among the unimaginative conceits of the eighteenth-century Robinsonades, which in no way express merely a reaction against over-sophistication and a return to a misunderstood natural life, as cultural...1973, Karl Marx, translated by Martin Nicolaus, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 83
    • The reader has so far followed Mr. Lecky, the novella’s single reflector, on a Robinsonade through a deserted department store.1996 summer, Manfred Jahn, “Windows of Focalization: Deconstructing and Reconstructing a Narratological Concept”, in Style, volume 30, number 2, →ISSN, page 257

Forms of robinsonade

pluralrobinsonades
alternative formRobinsonade
pluralRobinsonades

Origin of robinsonade

Borrowed from German Robinsonade, analyzable in English as Robinson + -ade, named after fictional character Robinson Crusoe, from Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe.

Words formed from robinsonade

Words that rhyme with robinsonade

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Questions about robinsonade

What does robinsonade mean?
Robinsonade means a genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.
What part of speech is robinsonade?
Robinsonade is a noun.
How do you pronounce robinsonade?
Robinsonade is pronounced /ˌɹɑbɪnsəˈneɪd/ (US).
What is the plural of robinsonade?
The plural of robinsonade is robinsonades.

Words near robinsonade in the dictionary

  1. Robinson projection
  2. Robinson projections
  3. Robinson's mouse opossum
  4. Robinson-Schensted correspondence
  5. Robinson-Schensted correspondences
  6. robinsonade
  7. robinsonades
  8. Robinsonesque
  9. Robinsonian
  10. robinsonite
  11. Robinsons

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