Word Study
leaflet
CIDE DICTIONARY
leaflet, n.
- A little leaf. [1913 Webster]
- One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole. [1913 Webster]
- A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes. [1913 Webster]
- A printed sheet of paper, of one page, or one sheet folded over, containing an advertisement, tract, or other notice, and usually distributed for free or included in the package with a purchased item. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
leaflet, n. & v.
--n.
1 a young leaf.
2 Bot. any division of a compound leaf.
3 a sheet of (usu. printed) paper (sometimes folded but not stitched) giving information, esp. for free distribution.
--v.tr. (leafleted, leafleting) distribute leaflets to.
--n.
1 a young leaf.
2 Bot. any division of a compound leaf.
3 a sheet of (usu. printed) paper (sometimes folded but not stitched) giving information, esp. for free distribution.
--v.tr. (leafleted, leafleting) distribute leaflets to.
THESAURUS
leaflet
advert, advertisement, bill, blade, booklet, bract, bracteole, bractlet, brochure, chapbook, circular, comic book, cotyledon, flag, flier, floral leaf, flyer, folder, foliole, frond, glume, handbill, involucre, involucrum, lamina, leaf, lemma, ligule, needle, pamphlet, petal, pile, pine needle, seed leaf, sepal, spathe, spear, spire, stipula, stipule, tractROGET THESAURUS
leaflet
Book
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.Part
N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.For further exploring for "leaflet" in Webster Dictionary Online