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noun
1.
a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
2.
a short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract, on some subject of contemporary interest: a political pamphlet.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English pamflet < Anglo-Latin panfletus, pamfletus, syncopated variant of Pamphiletus, diminutive of Medieval Latin Pamphilus, title of a 12th-century Latin comedy. See -et
1375–1425; late Middle English pamflet < Anglo-Latin panfletus, pamfletus, syncopated variant of Pamphiletus, diminutive of Medieval Latin Pamphilus, title of a 12th-century Latin comedy. See -et
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pam·phlet·ar·y, adjective
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Pamphlet
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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- Make an educational pamphlet for teens that describes the dangers of dehydration.
- The pamphlet has certainly been taken seriously abroad.
- He suggested that this kind of technology could even be used to shrink the world's collection of books onto one pamphlet.
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Word Origin & History
pamphlet
"small, unbound treatise," late 14c., from Anglo-Latin panfletus, popular short form of "Pamphilus, seu de Amore" ("Pamphilus, or about Love"), a short L. love poem of 12c., popular and widely copied in Middle Ages; the name from Gk. pamphilos "loved by all," from pan- "all" + philos "loving, dear."
EXPAND Meaning "brief work dealing with questions of current interest" is late 16c. Pamphleteer (n.) is first recorded 1640s.
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