pamphlet
IPA: pˈæmfɫʌt
noun
- A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover, formerly containing literary compositions, newsletters, and newspapers, but now chiefly informational matter.
- (specifically) Such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy.
- (obsolete) A brief handwritten work.
verb
- (transitive)
- To distribute pamphlets (to someone or some place).
- (archaic) To write about (someone or something) in a pamphlet; to issue (some material) in the form of a pamphlet.
- (intransitive)
- To distribute pamphlets.
- (obsolete, rare) To write or produce pamphlets.
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Examples of "pamphlet" in Sentences
- I think the pamphlet is the best way to put out comics.
- At Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh takes a look at King City in pamphlet form.
- "Lampreys don't charm most people," begins a pamphlet from the Minnesota Sea Grant.
- Beneath the desk is my small collection of PULP and other really old manga published in pamphlet-comic format.
- Preceding the publication of this pamphlet is a report of investigations made by Ralph Bunche and Gunnar Myrdal in 1940.
- Genius: This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers.
- This four-page pamphlet is designed to secure donations from the American public to help feed and clothe French and Belgian prisoners of war in Germany.
- Steve describes his journey from birthright Quakerism to the zendo in very personal terms, but most of the pamphlet is a deep meditation on Quakerism and the wisdom of early Friends.
- Much of the pamphlet is an attack on the notion of internationalism, and is backed up by such remarks as: No British statesman should feel himself authorized to spend British blood for the promotion of something superior to British interests.
- NOTES: Labor historian Philip Foner says "The Dream of Debs" predicted the San Francisco general strike of 1934, that it is a small classic of working class propaganda and that it was reprinted in pamphlet form and had a huge circulation in labor circles.
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