paperback
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
paper + back, a shortening of the older term paper-backed book.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
paperback (plural paperbacks)
Synonyms[edit]
- pocketbook (US), livre de poche (French contexts)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
book — see also pocketbook
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Adjective[edit]
paperback (not comparable)
- (of a book) Having flexible binding.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
having flexible binding
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Verb[edit]
paperback (third-person singular simple present paperbacks, present participle paperbacking, simple past and past participle paperbacked)
- (transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.
- 2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:
- Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “paperback”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English paperback.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
paperback m (plural paperbacks, diminutive paperbackje n)
- A paperback.
Adjective[edit]
paperback (not comparable)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of paperback | ||||
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uninflected | paperback | |||
inflected | paperback | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | ||||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | paperback | ||
n. sing. | paperback | |||
plural | paperback | |||
definite | paperback | |||
partitive |
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