short story
short story noun: a work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.
Noun
short story (plural short stories)
short story meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
short story in Hindi
- work of fiction
- लघुकथा laghukthā
short story in Tamil
- work of fiction
- சிறுகதை ciṟukatai
short story in Urdu
- work of fiction
- اَفْسانَہ afsāna, مُخْتَصَر کَہانی muxtasar kahānī
short story in Bengali
- work of fiction
- ছোটগল্প chōṭgolpo
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- short story in Telugu
- కథానిక kathānika, చిన్నకథ cinnakatha
- short story in Kannada
- ಚಿಕ್ಕಕತೆ, ಚಿಟ್ಟೆಕತೆ
- short story in Punjabi
- ਨਿੱਕੀ ਕਹਾਣੀ nikkī kahāṇī
- short story in Gujarati
- ટૂંકી વાર્તા ṭū̃kī vārtā
- short story in Assamese
- চুটিগল্প sutigolpo
- short story in Pashto
- داستان dāstãn, لنډه کيسه lanḍa kisa
- short story in Tagalog
- maikling kuwento
- short story in Arabic
- قِصَّة قَصِيرَة qiṣṣa qaṣīra, أُقْصُوصَة ʔuqṣūṣa
- short story in Malay
- cerpen, cerita pendek
- short story in Indonesian
- cerita pendek, cerpen
- short story in Thai
- เรื่องสั้น rʉ̂ʉang-sân
- short story in Vietnamese
- truyện ngắn, chuyện
Synonyms of short story
Forms of short story
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Words formed from short story
Questions about short story
- What does short story mean?
- Short story means a work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.
- What is short story in Hindi?
- Short story in Hindi is लघुकथा (laghukthā). See Short story meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is short story?
- Short story is a noun.
- What is the plural of short story?
- The plural of short story is short stories.
Words near short story in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: short story (page history and authors); కథానిక (Telugu) (page history and authors); short story (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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