hardcover
Americannoun
adjective
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bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material.
a hardcover series.
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noting or pertaining to hardcover books.
hardcover sales.
Other Word Forms
- hardcovered adjective
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He said in an interview that getting the audiobook via Audible—at a price point lower than the hardcover—“also made it more accessible.”
Edward Ashton removed a small hardcover book from within the pile of papers.
From Literature
“The Correspondent” spent one week on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list in early October.
Some books read like hardcover screenplays, so easily translated to the movies that publishing them first as a novel almost seems like an unnecessary formality.
From Los Angeles Times
The special hardcover edition of the seminal LGBTQ+ coming of age memoir includes commentary by Kobabe as well as other comic creators and scholars.
From Los Angeles Times
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