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cover to cover

cover to cover is the alternative form of from cover to cover.

Meaning of from cover to cover

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) From the first page (of a book) all the way to the last page.
    • She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours.

Questions about cover to cover

What is cover to cover the alternative form of?
Cover to cover is the alternative form of from cover to cover.

Words near cover to cover in the dictionary

  1. cover story
  2. cover the bases
  3. cover the buckle
  4. cover the spot
  5. cover the waterfront
  6. cover to cover
  7. cover up
  8. cover version
  9. cover versions
  10. cover zero
  11. cover'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cover to cover (page history and authors); from cover to cover (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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