dust cover

Questions about dust cover

What does dust cover mean?

dust cover means "a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dust cover?

Close synonyms include book jacket, dust jacket, dust wrapper, dust sheet. 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 dust cover a common word?

dust cover is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.