"hardcover" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-hardcover.wav
Etymology: From hard + cover. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hard|cover}} hard + cover Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} hardcover (not comparable)
  1. (of a book) Having a rigid binding. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Books Synonyms: hardback Related terms: paperback Translations (of a book: having a rigid binding): rigidkovrila (Esperanto), kovakantinen (Finnish), relié (French), de pasta dura (Galician), gebunden (German), σκληρόδετος (skliródetos) [masculine] (Greek), kemény kötésű/fedelű/táblás (Hungarian), cartonat (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-hardcover-en-adj-AUudonEa Disambiguation of Books: 89 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Afrikaans translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 90 10

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-hardcover.wav Forms: hardcovers [plural]
Etymology: From hard + cover. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hard|cover}} hard + cover Head templates: {{en-noun}} hardcover (plural hardcovers)
  1. A book with a rigid binding, often of cardboard or leather. Translations (a book with a rigid binding): hardeband (Afrikaans), livre relié [masculine] (French), pasta dura [feminine] (Galician), gebundenes Buch [neuter] (German), gebundene Ausgabe [feminine] (German), σκληρόδετο βιβλίο (skliródeto vivlío) [neuter] (Greek), kemény kötésű/fedelű/táblás könyv (Hungarian), copertina rigida [feminine] (Italian), libro con copertina rigida [masculine] (Italian), capa dura [feminine] (Portuguese), còmhdach cruaidh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), tapa dura [feminine] (Spanish), cartoné [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hardcover-en-noun-ktulhFKa

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.