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backmatter

backmatter 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 backmatter

What is backmatter the alternative form of?
Backmatter is the alternative form of back matter.

Words near backmatter in the dictionary

  1. backmaps
  2. backmarker
  3. backmarkers
  4. backmasked
  5. backmasking
  6. backmatter
  7. Backmede
  8. backmen
  9. backmost
  10. backmounted
  11. backmutation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backmatter (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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