hardback
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈhɑrdˌbæk/
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- I recently purchased a beautiful hardback edition of my favorite novel.
- hardback book
- published in hardback
- hardback book with illustrations
So I don't really want to bring these huge book, the hardback ones.
- So I don't really want to bring these huge book, the hardback ones.
- But I was amazed people are actually reading it and buying it for God's sake in hardback.
- Now his book is available in paperback, hardback, Kindle, but then more importantly, Audible.
- I think you can tell by my enthusiasm in here this is a cool thing to have my own copy, if I've only seen it in hardback before.
- And one of the things that helps it make us make a big splashes, hardback, physical copies and ebooks.
- I went and got it opened the first hardback bit as I've always done, read this bit what I'd always read, you know, fascinated by how old it was, pristine condition.
- I like and appreciate when the the hardback book like has like something like this going on and isn't just like plain underneath the dust jacket.
Examples
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It's a big, heavy, hardback book with illustrations by Dor.
Academic text (2007) -
Marvel Comics even published a hardback graphic novel if you want illustrations.
Blog text (23) -
The inside was just big enough to stack five or six hardback books.
Fiction book (1992) -
I found my old Bible stories hardback and brought it out on the porch.
Fiction book (2000) -
And Betty had added her own extensive collection of hardback books to the library.
Fiction book (1993) -
The book was originally published in hardback by Macmillan Canada.
Academic text (2012) -
I think nothing of paying near $30.00 for a hardback if I want to read it.
Blog text (32) -
Students researched and wrote about local plants and animals, creating a hardback, bound book.
Academic text (2012) -
Well , Alex's first novel was published in hardback, and he's about to finish his second one.
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I've been reading T. S. Eliot again, the nice hardback edition of his poems that Roberta gave me before she left.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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2.3
A book with thick, stiff covers instead of a thin paper cover
Antonyms
How Sturdy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hardback comes from the two plain words hard ('firm or stiff') and back ('the cover or support at the back'), so a hardback is a book with a firm, stiff cover, not a paperback.