Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts..
1849 Notices of Fugitive Tracts: And Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc This was, till within the last few years, a favourite chapbook in the north of England.
2005 Kathryn A. Lowry - The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China Two such examples of slim, chapbook-style collections were both part of larger compendia […]
For Haines’s chapbook. No-one here to hear.
Use chapbook when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chapbook means A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1849 Notices of Fugitive Tracts: And Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc This was, till within the last few years, a favourite chapbook in the north of England.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.