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ebook

ebook is the alternative spelling of e-book.

Meaning of e-book

Noun

e-book (plural e-books)

  1. An electronic book, a book published in electronic form.
    • The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel.2004, Sunil Saxena, Breaking News: The Craft and Technology of Online Journalism

Noun capitalized: eBook

eBook (plural eBooks)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of e-book.

Forms of ebook

pluralebooks
pluraleBooks

Origin of ebook

From e- + book.

Questions about ebook

What is ebook the alternative spelling of?
Ebook is the alternative spelling of e-book.
What part of speech is ebook?
Ebook is a noun.
What is the plural of ebook?
The plural of ebook is ebooks.

Words near ebook in the dictionary

  1. ebony spleenwort
  2. ebony spleenworts
  3. Ebonyi
  4. ebonylike
  5. Eboo
  6. ebook
  7. ebooks
  8. Ebor
  9. EBOs
  10. eboshi
  11. EBOV

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ebook (page history and authors); eBook (page history and authors); e-book (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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