booklet

UK/ˈbʊk.lət/US/ˈbʊk.lət/

nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,261 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: booklets

A booklet is a thin book with a paper cover. A few dozen pages, stapled or stitched.

The -let ending means small, the same one that makes a piglet and a droplet. It sits between a leaflet, which is a single folded sheet, and a book proper. Instructions, exhibition guides and information from a council all arrive as booklets. The word promises modesty, which is why nobody publishes a novel as a booklet, and a pamphlet is the same object with an argument in it.

Definitions of booklet

1nounbookletA small thin book with a paper cover.B2
“There is a booklet in the box explaining the settings.”

Where it comes from

Middle English
bok
English
book
English, today
booklet

From book + -let. book comes from Middle English bok. From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic bōk, from Proto-Germanic bōks. Bookmaker sense by a clipping of. 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

booklet in the wild

An internal or domestic passport is a type of identity document issued in a passport-like booklet format.
Internal passport
Carrousel is a booklet published in 1987 containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for "Karussel", a Russian cabaret.
Carrousel (booklet)
The Way to Happiness is a 1980 booklet written by science-fiction author and Scientology founder L.
The Way to Happiness
The booklet is distributed by The Way to Happiness Foundation International, a Scientology-related nonprofit organization founded in 1984.
The Way to Happiness
The languages will provide an answer booklet for the essay.
Primary School Leaving Examination

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