robinsonade
/ˌɹɑbɪnsəˈneɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
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
Alternative letter-case form of robinsonade.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 historians imagine."
- "The reader has so far followed Mr. Lecky, the novella’s single reflector, on a Robinsonade through a deserted department store."
- "If it touches on isolation, tabulae rasae, or close encounters of a new kind, or if it has a character commenting on society from the outside—it’s a Robinsonade."
Etymology
Borrowed from German Robinsonade, analyzable in English as Robinson + -ade, named after fictional character Robinson Crusoe, from Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Robinsonade
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɹɑbɪnsəˈneɪd/
- British English: /ˌɹɒbɪnsəˈneɪd/