# book
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bo͝ok, IPA: /bʊk/
** Audio (UK):(file)
** Audio (US):(file)
* enPR: bo͞ok IPA: /buːk/ (some speakers from Northern England and Ireland)
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /bʉk/
* Homophone: buck (without the foot-strut split, when pronounced /bʊk/)
* Rhymes: -ʊk

### Etymology 1

From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.

#### Alternative forms

* boke (obsolete)
* booke (archaic)

#### Noun

book (plural books)
* A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
** 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3, column 1:Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furniſhd me / From mine owne Library, with volumes, that / I prize aboue my Dukedome.
** 1962, Luis Borges, translated by James East Irby, The Library of Babel: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.
** 1983, Steve Horelick et al., Reading Rainbow:I can be anything. Take a look! It's in a book: A reading rainbow.
** 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51: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?’
    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.
* 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.
    I have three copies of his first book.
** 2022 December 6, Stephen Marche, quoting Sam Bankman-Fried, “The College Essay Is Dead”, in The Atlantic‎:“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.”
* A major division of a long work.
    Synonyms: tome, volume
    Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
    Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
* (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
    I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
* (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
* A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
    Synonym: booklet
    a book of stamps
    a book of raffle tickets
* (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
    Synonym: libretto
** 2010, David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page 172:The guild helps ensure that the ownership and control of the music, lyrics, and book of a show remain in the hands of its authors and composers—not the producers.
* (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
    Synonyms: account, record
* (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
* (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
* (poker slang) Four of a kind.
* (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents that happened in a game.
* (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
** 2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC‎:Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.
* (horse racing) The list of mares that a stallion will breed in a given season.
* (horse racing) A list of the races that a jockey is scheduled to ride in.
* (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
* (figurative) Any source of instruction.
* (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
** 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero, page 11:The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.
** 1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly, volume 21, page 36:On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.
* (advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
** 2017, Nik Mahon, Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction, page 8:Getting your book (portfolio) organised is the first step, and knowing both what to include, and what to leave out, is an essential step towards achieving that important agency placement.
** Idea Industry (page 27)
    Your portfolio — your book — has to be killer.
* (chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
    The opposite-colored bishops endgame is usually a book draw.
    A book move
    out of book
** 2018 April 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Schoolboy Vincent Keymer secures shock triumph at Grenke Open”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 2023-01-12:White to move and win. How can he do it? The BK plans a march to h8, eating the f4 pawn en route, for a book draw.
** 2020, Andrew Soltis, How to Swindle in Chess, Batsford Books, →ISBN:This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook. In some cases a book draw is possible. But a book win is more likely.

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:book

##### Hyponyms

* See Thesaurus:book

##### Derived terms

* ABC book
* absey-book
* absey book
* account book
* activity book
* address book
* airport book
* alphabet book
* American comic book
* antibook
* artbook
* audio-book
* audio book
* audiobook
* autograph book
* baby book
* back of the book
* bankbook
* bath book
* beach book
* birthday book
* block book
* blook
* blot one's copy book
* blue book
* bluebook
* blue book exam
* board book
* book account
* book agent
* bookaholic
* bookalike
* book-answerer
* book award
* bookazine
* book bag
* book-bearer
* book bin
* bookbinder
* bookbindery
* bookbinding
* bookboard
* book-bosomed
* book-bound
* book-boy
* bookbuild
* book-building
* book-burner
* book-burning
* book burning
* bookbus
* book canvasser
* bookcase
* bookception
* bookchest
* book-cloth
* book club
* book concern
* book-crab
* bookcraft
* book credit
* bookcross
* book deal
* bookdealer
* book debt
* book-debt
* book discussion group
* bookdom
* book drop
* book dumping
* book-edge gilder
* book-edge marbler
* book end
* bookend
* book-end
* book entry
* booker
* bookery
* booketeria
* book fair
* book-farmer
* bookfell
* bookflap
* book folder
* book form
* bookful
* book-ghoul
* book gill
* book group
* book hand
* bookhoard
* book-holder
* bookholder
* bookhood
* bookhound
* bookhouse
* book-hunt
* bookhunter
* bookie
* book in
* bookish
* bookism
* bookist
* book it
* bookjacket
* book-keep
* bookkeeper
* book-keeper
* book keeping
* bookkeeping
* book-keeping
* book-knowledge
* book knowledge
* book label
* Bookland
* bookland
* book-lare
* book law
* book-lear
* book-learned
* book learning
* book-learning
* booklegger
* booklegging
* book-length
* book length
* bookless
* booklet
* booklift
* booklight
* booklike
* booklined
* bookling
* booklist
* book-lore
* book lore
* booklore
* booklouse
* book lover
* booklover
* Booklr
* book-lung
* book lung
* bookly
* bookmaker
* bookmaking
* bookman
* bookmark
* bookmarker
* bookmatch
* book-match
* bookmate
* book-mindedness
* book mite
* bookmobile
* bookmonger
* book muslin
* bookname
* booknap
* bookness
* book number
* book-number
* book oath
* book of business
* Book of Concord
* book of condolence
* book of first entry
* Book of God
* book of hours
* book of lading
* Book of Life
* book of nature
* book of original entry
* book of prime entry
* book of rates
* book of reference
* book of shadows
* Book of the Dead
* book of the film
* Book of the Living
* book of words
* book packet
* book piles
* bookplate
* book pocket
* book post
* book postage
* bookpress
* book price
* book prop
* bookrack
* book rate
* book-read
* book-reader
* book-reading
* book reading
* book report
* bookrest
* book return
* book-ridden
* bookright
* bookroll
* bookroom
* bookrunner
* bookrunning
* book sales club
* bookscape
* book scorpion
* book-scorpion
* bookseller
* bookselling
* bookshelf
* bookshelving
* bookshop
* book shop
* book-shy
* booksie
* book-signing
* book signing
* book-slide
* book-smart
* book smart
* book society
* booksona
* bookstack
* bookstaff
* Bookstagram
* bookstall
* book stamp
* book-stamp
* bookstand
* bookstave
* book steak
* bookstop
* book store
* bookstore
* book stuffing
* book support
* booksy
* book table
* book-table
* book talk
* booktastic
* book-teaching
* Bookternet
* BookTok
* book token
* book-token
* book tour
* book town
* book trade
* book-tray
* book trough
* BookTube
* booktuber
* book type
* book up
* book value
* bookwards
* bookware
* book-ways
* bookwheel
* bookwise
* book-wise
* book word
* book-word
* bookwork
* book world
* book worm
* bookworm
* bookwright
* book-wright
* bookwriting
* booky
* brag book
* bring to book
* burn book
* busy book
* by-book
* by the book
* by-the-book
* callbook
* call someone every name in the book
* casebook
* case-book
* case book
* cashbook
* chapter book
* chartbook
* checkbook
* cheque book
* chequebook
* classbook
* clipbook
* closed-book
* closed book
* close the book on
* close the books
* codebook
* coffee table book
* coffee-table book
* coloring book
* colouring book
* comic book
* commonplace-book
* commonplace book
* composition book
* cook book
* cookbook
* cookery book
* cook the books
* copybook
* cost-book
* coursebook
* courtesy book
* crack a book
* cyberbook
* databook
* datebook
* daybook
* day book
* death book
* deathbook
* deskbook
* don't judge a book by its cover
* dope book
* Dutch book
* eBook
* e-book
* ebook
* e-book reader
* edited book
* electronic book
* emblem book
* emblem-book
* every trick in the book
* exercise book
* facebook
* factbook
* fairybook
* fake book
* field-book
* field book
* flick book
* flip book
* flybook
* forebook
* formbook
* form book
* for the book
* friendship book
* fuck book
* funny book
* gamebook
* giftbook
* Good Book
* good book
* green book
* guard book
* guest book
* guide book
* guidebook
* handbook
* have more chins than a Chinese phone book
* herdbook
* history book
* hold the book
* hollow book
* holobook
* Holy Book
* hornbook
* hymnbook
* hymn-book
* hymn book
* hyperbook
* in anyone's book
* in book
* in my book
* in one's book
* in someone's bad books
* in someone's good books
* in the books
* jestbook
* Jo-Jo book
* joke book
* keep the book
* kiss the book
* know every trick in the book
* know like a book
* landbook
* lawbook
* letterbook
* little black book
* log book
* log-book
* logbook
* look book
* lookbook
* look-out book
* mag book
* make a book
* make book
* matchbook
* megabook
* midbook
* mook
* mug book
* multibook
* murder book
* muster-book
* namebook
* needlebook
* never judge a book by its cover
* newsbook
* nonbook
* note book
* notebook
* off-book
* off book
* off the books
* on book
* on the book
* on the books
* open book
* open-book
* open-book contract
* open book decomposition
* opening book
* order book
* out-book
* outbook
* outclearing book
* out of book
* paper book
* passbook
* pattern book
* paybook
* pension book
* phonebook
* phone book
* photobook
* phrasebook
* phrase book
* phrase-book
* picture book
* pillowbook
* pitchbook
* playbook
* pocketbook
* pocket book
* pocket-book
* poll book
* pop-up book
* prayer book
* prebook
* promptbook
* psalmbook
* quizbook
* quotebook
* racebook
* rag book
* ration book
* reading book
* read like a book
* read like an open book
* recipe book
* record book
* red book
* reference book
* regie-book
* rhyme book
* rime book
* rip a page out of someone's book
* roadbook
* rough-book
* rough book
* rulebook
* rule book
* rule-book
* run book
* runbook
* rune book
* said-bookism
* salesbook
* schoolbook
* school book
* scientibook
* scorebook
* scrapbook
* scrap book
* scriptbook
* service book
* shopbook
* sketchbook
* sketch book
* skybook
* slambook
* slam book
* song book
* songbook
* sourcebook
* speak like a book
* spellbook
* splat book
* splatbook
* sportsbook
* squawk book
* statute book
* sticker book
* stockbook
* storybook
* stroke book
* stud-book
* stud book
* stylebook
* suit one's book
* tablebook
* take a leaf out of someone's book
* take a page out of someone's book
* tale-book
* talebook
* talking book
* talk like a book
* telephone book
* text-book
* textbook
* the oldest trick in the book
* this is a book
* throw the book at
* Tillie and Mac book
* time book
* time-book
* timebook
* toilet book
* trade book
* travel book
* truth book
* tunebook
* tunnel book
* turnip for the book
* turn-up for the book
* turn up for the book
* ultrabook
* videobook
* viewbook
* visitors' book
* visitor's book
* vook
* wastebook
* webbook
* why buy a book when you can join a library
* why buy a book when you can join the library
* winter book
* wishbook
* without book
* Wizard Book
* wordbook
* workbook
* write the book
* yardage book
* yearbook
* year-book
* you can't judge a book by its cover
* you can't tell a book by its cover

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: buku
* Tok Pisin: buk
** → Rotokas: vuku
* → Chichewa: buku
* → Hawaiian: puke
* → Lingala: búku
* → Malagasy: boky
* → Maori: pukapuka (with reduplication)
* → Marshallese: bok
* → Motu: buka
* → Malagasy: boky
* → Shona: bhuku
* → Somali: buugga
* → Sotho: buka (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)
* → Zulu: ibhuku (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)

##### See also

* incunable
* scroll
* tome
* volume

### Etymology 2

From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).

#### Verb

book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)
* (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
    Synonym: reserve
    I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
    I can book tickets for the concert next week.
** 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
* (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
    Synonyms: make a note of, note down, record, write down
    They booked that message from the hill.
* (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
    Synonyms: sign up, register, reserve, schedule, enroll
    I booked a flight to New York.
* (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
    The police booked him for driving too fast.
* (sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
* (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
    Synonyms: bomb, hurtle, rocket, speed, shoot, whiz
    He was really booking until he passed the speed trap.
* To record bets as bookmaker.
* (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
    The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
* (intransitive, slang) To leave.
    He was here earlier, but he booked.

##### Derived terms

* block-book
* bookable
* book away
* book in
* booking
* book into
* book off
* book on
* book up
* double-book
* overbook
* rebook
* unbook
* underbook

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”).

#### Verb

book
* (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past of bake

### References

* ↑ Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

### Anagrams

* Boko, Koob, boko, bòkò, kobo

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 卜

### Etymology

From English book.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): buk$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: buk$^1$
*** Yale: būk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: buk$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bug$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʊk̚⁵/

### Verb

book
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to book; to reserve

#### Related terms

* booking

## French
### Noun

book m (plural books)
* portfolio
* bookmaker

### References

* “book”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Kankanaey
### Etymology

Compare Tagalog buhok.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Kankanaey) IPA: /boˈʔok/ [boˈʔok̠̚]
* Rhymes: -ok
* Syllabification: bo‧ok

### Noun

boók
* (anatomy) hair

### References

* Morice Vanoverbergh (1982) “Kankanay Anatomy: A Lexicon”, in Asian Folklore Studies‎, volume 41, number 1 (overall work in English and Kankanaey), Nanzan University, →DOI, pages 83-96

## Limburgish
### Alternative forms

* bouk (Sittard, amongst other dialects)
** Bouk (Eupen)
* Bock (Krefeld)

### Etymology

From Middle Low German bôk, from Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boːk/
* Hyphenation: book
* Rhymes: -oːk

### Noun

book n
* (many dialects) book

#### Derived terms

* bokebazel
* bokebijeinzeumering
* bokebon
* bokekas
* bokelies
* bokelègker
* bokemerret
* bokeplaank
* bokerèk
* bokestäönder
* boketaol
* bokewiesheid
* bokezin
* bookgesjef
* daagbook
* gastebook
* jaorbook
* kasbook
* kingerbook
* kookbook
* leesbook
* printebook
* receptebook
* waordebook
* wètbook

## Mansaka
### Noun

book
* piece

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

book
* Alternative form of bok

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

book
* Alternative form of bouk

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

book
* imperative of booke