Heft
Pronunciation: /hɛft/
“Heft” is a German word. Its 7 meanings in English:
noun
- 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)
- haft; handle (of a weapon or certain tools)
Etymology
18th-century backformation from heften (“to fasten”), from *haftijaną (“to bind, secure”).
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