hardcover
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- adjective
- /ˈhɑrdˌkʌvər/
- US
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tapa dura
- The library has a special section for hardcover editions of popular classics.
- hardcover book
- hardcover edition
I still read hardcover and paperback books.
- I still read hardcover and paperback books.
Examples
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As part of the grant, each student receives a signed, hardcover book from the author at the end of the presentation.
Blog text (27) -
And to their credit, my publishers early on were open to this logic for staying in hardcover, and it worked out really, really well.
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Now, the hardcover for this book is coming out pretty soon, right?
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Selected prints of its members will be published in a hardcover photo album, with an estimated volume of about 400 pages.
Academic text (1996) -
But if a book is selling really, really well hardcover, they will wait to push the paper back out because the profit margin is higher with hardcover.
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In mid-October, Buz called to say he would like to publish the book in a hardcover trade edition.
Academic text (2009) -
It is a hardcover book with a surprise squeaking rubber duck sound at the end.
Blog text (5) -
Atheneum has just published her hardcover young adult fantasy novel, The Wishing Season, and for fun, she is working on a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel, Warchild, which will appear in 1995.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's a hardcover final copy, and it's the first in Grebe and Trff's Siri Bergman series; the second, More Bitter Than Death, will be published in America by Free Press (and elsewhere by Simon & Schuster) in July 2013.
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The new novel is available in hardcover format, making it a great addition to any bookshelf.
Synonyms
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A book with a hard cover that protects the pages
A book with a hard cover that lasts longer
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Etymology
The word hardcover is made of two simple English parts: hard 'firm or not soft' and cover 'to protect'. So a hardcover book is one with a firm, protective outside instead of a soft one.