Heft.
notebook, writing booklet, cahier, composition book (book in which notes or memoranda are written)
Meaning & usage
notebook, writing booklet, cahier, composition book (book in which notes or memoranda are written)
notepad, writing pad (pad of paper on which one jots down notes)
exercise book (booklet for students, containing problems and exercises, or blank pages for writing answers)
number, issue (single edition of a periodical publication)
magazine (non-academic periodical publication)
comic (magazine that uses sequences of drawings to tell a story or series of stories)
Where this word comes from
18th-century backformation from heften (“to fasten”), from *haftijaną (“to bind, secure”).
haft; handle (of a weapon or certain tools)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German hefte, from Old High German hefti, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją (“handle, grip”). Cognate with Dutch heft, English haft.
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