Meaning

A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
2. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
3. A major division of a long work.
4. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
5. (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
6. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
7. (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
8. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.

Example Sentences

She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.

He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.

Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furniſhd me / From mine owne Library, with volumes, that / I prize aboue my Dukedome.

I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.

I can be anything. Take a look! It's in a book: A reading rainbow.

Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’

I have three copies of his first book.

“I would never read a book,” he once told an interviewer. “I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.”

Word Forms

• books
• boke
• booke
• booking
• booked

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