cahier

Thin stitched booklet

A cahier is a notebook or journal, borrowed from French.

The word appears in English primarily in historical or literary contexts, often referring to written reports or memoranda: The delegates submitted their cahiers of grievances.

In French educational settings, a cahier is simply an exercise book or copybook.

notebook

paper

Pressed pulp for writing

  • spiralCurve winding around center
  • coverProtect by overlaying
  • pagesBound paper sheets

lined · perforated · margin · stapled · booklet · exercise · jotter · pad · folio · stationery

journal

diary

Personal daily record

memoir · recollections · narrative · reflections · testimony · chronology · register · ledger · personal · daily

writing

manuscript

Original text before publication

  • draftPreliminary version of text
  • compositionArranged elements forming whole
  • essayShort argumentative prose work

prose · script · text · handwriting · calligraphy · notes · scribbles · marginalia · annotations · rough

school

homework

Student assignments for outside class

assignment · exercise · mathematics · geography · penmanship · lessons · dictation · grammar · spelling · sums

sketches

doodles

Casual, aimless drawings

drafting · linework · rough · preliminary · thumbnail · concept · design · figure · studies · outlines

Opposites
binding and formality

cahierhardcover

Rigid-bound book format

hardback · bound volume · tome · codex · deluxe edition

publication format

cahiermonograph

Single-topic scholarly work

magnum opus · definitive edition · complete works · encyclopedia · treatise

Family

quaternary, quaternion

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