back matter

1. 1.

   written matter following the main text of a book

   Synonymsend matter

   Broadermatter

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Questions about back matter

What does back matter mean?

back matter means "written matter following the main text of a book".

What is another word for back matter?

Close synonyms include end matter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is back matter a common word?

back matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.