"back cover" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: back covers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} back cover (plural back covers)
  1. The cover on the opposite side of the front cover of a book, magazine, etc; back of the book; associated with sports pages in publications. Synonyms: back page, fourth cover [advertising, marketing, business] Derived forms: bacover Translations (cover on the opposite side of the front cover): malantaŭa kovrilo (Esperanto), takakansi (Finnish), quatrième de couverture [feminine] (French), quatrième de couv’ [feminine] (French), dos [masculine] (French), 裏表紙 (urabyōshi) (Japanese), 封底 (fēngdǐ) (Mandarin), contracapa [feminine] (Portuguese), contraportada [feminine] (Spanish), baksida [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "cover on the opposite side of the front cover",
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      "sense": "cover on the opposite side of the front cover",
      "word": "malantaŭa kovrilo"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cover on the opposite side of the front cover",
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      "sense": "cover on the opposite side of the front cover",
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      "sense": "cover on the opposite side of the front cover",
      "word": "封底"
    },
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      "sense": "cover on the opposite side of the front cover",
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    },
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      "sense": "cover on the opposite side of the front cover",
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    },
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      "word": "baksida"
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