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单词 paperback
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paperback

noun

pa·​per·​back ˈpā-pər-ˌbak How to pronounce paperback (audio)
: a book with a flexible paper binding
paperback adjective
or less commonly paperbacked
ˈpā-pər-ˌbakt How to pronounce paperback (audio)

Example Sentences

The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers. The book is sold only in paperback.
Recent Examples on the Web Unfortunately, Grace Covenant Church won't be around when the book comes out in paperback. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022 Katie Kitamura's Intimacies, now out in paperback, is about a woman assigned to be the translator for a former ruler on trial in The Hague for war crimes. The Week Staff, The Week, 29 Aug. 2022 Nineteen months after the hardcover was published in May 2020, the paperback edition hit the New York Times nonfiction list dated Dec. 12, 2021. Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022 Also, Archie’s first webcomic Bite Sized Archie has enjoyed similar success and just came out with a paperback edition. Goldie Chan, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 The Paperback Row column last Sunday featured in some copies a book whose paperback edition had been postponed. New York Times, 19 June 2022 Dear Miss Manners: Is there still a stigma attached to gifting paperback books, rather than hardcover? Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 11 July 2022 In fact, the movie often plays like another Stranger Things dilution, watering down the paperback thrills of literature’s reigning master of horror into an inferior throwback substitution. A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022 Measuring just 111 x 63.5 x 22.5mm and weighing only 200g, the Zendure SuperMini 3 is smaller than my iPhone SE and about the same thickness as a slim paperback. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

paperback

noun

pa·​per·​back ˈpā-pər-ˌbak How to pronounce paperback (audio)
: a book with a flexible paper binding

paperback

noun

as in hardcover
a published work that has a thick paper cover The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.

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