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back-matter

back-matter is the alternative form of back matter.

Meaning of back matter

Noun

back matter (uncountable)

  1. The parts of a book that appear after the main portion of the body text.
    • Meronyms: afterword, epilogue, outro, postscript; addendum, appendix, errata, glossary, supplement; index; bibliography; endnotes; author, colophon, postface
    Synonyms:
    end matter
    Antonyms:
    front matter

Questions about back-matter

What is back-matter the alternative form of?
Back-matter is the alternative form of back matter.

Words near back-matter in the dictionary

  1. back-heeled
  2. back-heeling
  3. back-heels
  4. back-house
  5. back-houses
  6. back-matter
  7. back-ne
  8. back-of-a-fag-packet
  9. back-of-an-envelope
  10. back-of-the-envelope
  11. back-of-the-fag-packet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-matter (page history and authors); back matter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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