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notepad

nounA2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Other forms: notepads

A notepad is a small book of paper for jotting things down. Glued at the top, torn off a sheet at a time.

It is the thing by the telephone, in a coat pocket, on a desk beside a pen — for a shopping list, a name, a number somebody has just read out. The word covers digital ones too: a notepad app, and Notepad the plain text editor that comes with Windows. Close relatives are worth keeping apart, since a notebook is bound and meant to be kept, while a notepad is meant to be torn up and thrown away.

Definitions of notepad

  1. 1nounnotepadA pad of paper for writing short notes on.A2

    “She scribbled the address on a notepad.”

Where it comes from

From note + pad.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.

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notepad in the wild

  • A notepad is a pad of paper for writing down notes.

    Notepad (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.