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robinsonades

robinsonades is the plural of robinsonade.

Meaning of robinsonade

Noun

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 capitalized: Robinsonades

Robinsonades

  1. (plural) plural of Robinsonade

Questions about robinsonades

What is robinsonades the plural of?
Robinsonades is the plural of robinsonade.
What part of speech is robinsonades?
Robinsonades is a noun.

Words near robinsonades in the dictionary

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

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