Bookend

Quick meaning: Bookend is a noun meaning A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.

Meaning

A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
2. (transitive, often figurative) To come before and after, or at both sides of.

Example Sentences

Side one has good songs bookended by better songs.

The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year[…]

[…] radio techniques, including the use of sound montage and the placement of musical "bookends" at the beginning and end of radio programs […]

And it seemed, perhaps fancifully, that those two moments had become the bookends of a generation and of a nation’s frayed sense of equilibrium.

Word Forms

• bookends
• book-end
• book end
• bookending
• bookended

Synonyms for bookend

Depending on context, synonyms include flank.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bookrest, bookstop, bookstand, bookholder, book-holder, back.

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