pamphlet
Americannoun
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a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
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a short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract, on some subject of contemporary interest.
a political pamphlet.
noun
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a brief publication generally having a paper cover; booklet
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a brief treatise, often on a subject of current interest, published in pamphlet form
Other Word Forms
- pamphletary adjective
Etymology
Origin of pamphlet
1375–1425; late Middle English pamflet < Anglo-Latin panfletus, pamfletus, syncopated variant of Pamphiletus, diminutive of Medieval Latin Pamphilus, title of a 12th-century Latin comedy. See -et
Example Sentences
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A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
The pamphlet changed the way Americans viewed government.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026
And if you look at what was actually presented to the voters in the ballot pamphlet, there was virtually nothing about race there.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
It drew little attention, yet it was from this pamphlet that the idea of the OBR was born.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
Uncle Ty wanders over while looking through a pamphlet.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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