英和和英

語源

From paper +‎ back, a shortening of the older term paper-backed book.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpeɪ.pə.bæk/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/

名詞

paperback (plural paperbacks)

1. A book with flexible binding.

同意語

• pocketbook (US), livre de poche (French contexts)

派生語

形容詞

paperback (not comparable)

1. (of a book) Having flexible binding.

同意語

• paperbacked, paperbound, softcovered

動詞

paperback (third-person singular simple present paperbacks, present participle paperbacking, simple past and past participle paperbacked)

1. (transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.
   • 2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:

     Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.

参考

参照

• “paperback”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.