Word.ws English Dictionary

short stories

short stories is the plural of short story.

Meaning of short story

Noun

short story (plural short stories)

  1. A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.
    Synonyms:
    conte

Questions about short stories

What is short stories the plural of?
Short stories is the plural of short story.

Words near short stories in the dictionary

  1. short stack
  2. short stacked
  3. short stacks
  4. short stop
  5. short stops
  6. short stories
  7. short story
  8. short straddle
  9. short strokes
  10. short stuff
  11. short subject

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: short stories (page history and authors); short story (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “short stories.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/short_stories. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.