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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of books) having a flexible binding [syn: paperback, paperbacked] n
1: a book with paper covers [syn: paperback book, paper- back book, paperback, softback book, softback, soft-cover book, soft-cover]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1899 a book with a flexible paper binding • paperback also paperbacked adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. (of a book) bound in stiff paper not boards. --n. a paperback book.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(paperbacks) A paperback is a book with a thin cardboard or paper cover. Compare hardback. She said she would buy the book when it comes out in paperback. N-COUNT: also in N

Moby Thesaurus

best seller, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, definitive work, folio, great work, hardback, juvenile, juvenile book, limp-cover book, magnum opus, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, picture book, playbook, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, serial, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, standard work, storybook, title, tome, trade book, volume, work, writing