hardbacks

noun

plural of hardback
as in paperbacks

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  1. paperbacks
  2. books
  3. tomes
Noun
  • Shelves are stocked with everything from children’s books and paperbacks to rare finds, priced at $2 for Step Into Reading children’s books, $4 for paperbacks and other children’s books, $8 for hardcovers at $8 and rare books individually priced.
    — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Along the narrow hallway, bookshelves burst with first editions of John Updike, battered Stephen Kings, graphic novels, dime-store paperbacks, board games, books about mythology, children’s fairy tales, and Warhammer rule sets.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Definition of paperbacks
Noun
  • Between tuition, books, supplies and all the other costs that arrive with a new academic year, transportation is one area where students and families may be looking to save.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The government also plans to increase the use of physical books in classrooms, part of a wider effort to pull back from digital technology that has included banning smartphones in schools and proposing a social-media ban for children under 16.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of books
Noun
  • More than 500 workers oversee current projects and an archive, a meditative space for its tomes of silk samples that houses a collection of 75,000 fabric prints, 80,000 silk scarves, and more.
    — Ondine Cohane, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026
  • To start, there must be thousands of books around the property—coffee-table tomes about nature, volumes of Dickens, some mystery novels for good measure—filling shelves in every guest room, up to the balcony reading nook in the main lodge.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of tomes
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“Hardbacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardbacks. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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