from cover to cover
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
From the first page (of a book) all the way to the last page.
Example Sentences
- "She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours."
- "In short, every culturally literate person[…] must know who Oblomov is, if he or she intends to participate in the cultural discourse, but no one will ever be blackballed from that discourse for not recognising the name “Goncharov” or not having read his novel from cover to cover."