pamphlet
To distribute pamphletsTo distribute pamphlets (to someone or some place).
Meaning
4 senses(transitive)To distribute pamphlets (to someone or some place).
(intransitive)To distribute pamphlets.
(archaic, transitive)To write about (someone or something) in a pamphlet; to issue (some material) in the form of a pamphlet.
(intransitive, obsolete, rare)To write or produce pamphlets.
Examples
38 sentencesOrigin
The noun is derived from Late Middle English pamflet, pamphilet (“short written text; smalThe noun is derived from Late Middle English pamflet, pamphilet (“short written text; small book; tract”) [and other forms], from Middle French Pamphilet (compare Late Latin (Anglo-Latin) pamfletus, panfletus, paunflettus (“short written text”), Old French Panfilès), a popular shorthand for the 12th-century Latin love poem Pamphilus, seu de amore (Pamphilus, or On Love): the widely circulated pamphlets then gave this name to the whole phenomenon. Pamphilet is derived from Latin Pamphilus, the name of a protagonist of the poem + Middle French -et (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns); while Pamphilus is from Ancient Greek Πάμφιλος (Pámphilos, literally “beloved by all”), from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all; every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”)) + φῐ́λος (phĭ́los, “beloved, dear”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰil- (“decent; friendly; good; harmonious”)).
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Forms
pamphlets, pamphleting, pamphleted, pamphleted| Base form | pamphlet · to pamphlet |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | pamphlets |
| Present participle | pamphleting |
| Past simple | pamphleted / pamphletted |
| Past participle | pamphleted / pamphletted |
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Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle