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hardback

noun
/ˈhɑɹdˌbæk/US

Etymology

From hard + back, formed in analogy to earlier paperback.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as hardback — “hard + back”

Definitions

  1. A book with a solid binding.

  2. Having a solid binding.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hardback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA