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paperback

[pey-per-bak] / ˈpeɪ pərˌbæk /
NOUN
book
Synonyms
STRONGEST
album booklet brochure copy dictionary edition essay fiction magazine manual novel pamphlet publication text textbook tome volume work writing
STRONG
Bible atlas bestseller codex compendium dissertation encyclopedia folio handbook hardcover leaflet lexicon monograph nonfiction octavo offprint omnibus opus periodical portfolio primer quarto reader reprint roll scroll speller thesaurus tract treatise
WEAK
opuscule preprint softcover vade mecum
NOUN
novel
Synonyms
STRONGEST
fiction narrative novella prose story tale yarn
STRONG
novelette potboiler romance
WEAK
best-seller cliff-hanger
Antonyms
STRONGEST
nonfiction truth

Example Sentences

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The paperback rights for her second book, 1978’s Love Signs, were sold for $2.5 million, establishing an industry record at the time.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

The device, roughly the size of a paperback book, produces small amounts of power by capturing energy released as these microorganisms break down organic material in dirt.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

It now appears in a snazzy paperback edition from New York Review Books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“It ranges from like, something you’d read in your freshman year of philosophy to something that was a 1970s airport paperback thriller.”

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Lyesmith had loaned Shadow a battered paperback copy of Herodotus’s Histories several months earlier.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman