book
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: advertising
board-games
business
card-games
cartomancy
chess
entertainment
gambling
games
government
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
human-sciences
law
law-enforcement
lifestyle
marketing
mysticism
pets
philosophy
poker
racing
sciences
sports
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Bookmaker sense by clipping.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots beuk, buik, buke (“book”), Yola buke (“book”), North Frisian Bok, buk, bök (“book”), Saterland Frisian Bouk (“book”), West Frisian, Dutch boek (“book”), Alemannic German Buech (“book”), Bavarian Buach (“book”), Central Franconian Booch, Buch (“book”), German, Luxembourgish Buch (“book”), German Low German Book (“book”), Limburgish book, Bouk (“book”), Vilamovian büch (“book”), Yiddish בוך (bukh, “book”), Danish bog (“book”), Elfdalian buok (“book”), Faroese, Icelandic bók (“book”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bok (“book”).
Inflected forms:
form: books
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: booke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: books
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: booking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: booked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: booked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
pos: noun
examples: 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?’
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.”
They read some books
Sharing their moods
They know everything
Whatever it can mean
gloss: A major division of a long work.
pos: noun
examples: Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
gloss: A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
pos: noun
examples: I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
gloss: A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
pos: noun
examples: a book of stamps
a book of raffle tickets
a book of matches (matchbook)
gloss: The script of a musical or opera.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Records of the accounts of a business.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Six tricks taken by one side.
pos: noun
gloss: Four of a kind.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A document, held by the referee, of the incidents that happened in a game.
pos: noun
gloss: A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
gloss: The list of mares that a stallion will breed in a given season.
pos: noun
gloss: A list of the races that a jockey is scheduled to ride in.
pos: noun
gloss: The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
pos: noun
gloss: Any source of instruction.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
pos: noun
tags: with-definite-article
examples: The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.
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.
gloss: A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 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.
Your portfolio — your book — has to be killer.
gloss: The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The opposite-colored bishops endgame is usually a book draw.
A book move
out of book
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.
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.
gloss: A package of silk.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: This machinery was provided with a rotary drum with received upon its periphery the "books" of silk to be operated upon and presented them to travelling, combing, or dressing surfaces. The books were clamped and released automatically by the aid of bars formed with wedges and put in operation by screws […]
gloss: To reserve (something) for future use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
I can book tickets for the concert next week.
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.
gloss: To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They booked that message from the hill.
gloss: To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I booked a flight to New York.
gloss: To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police booked him for driving too fast.
gloss: To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
pos: verb
gloss: To travel very fast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: He was really booking until he passed the speed trap.
gloss: To record bets as bookmaker.
pos: verb
gloss: To receive the highest grade in a class.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
gloss: To move or leave, often hurriedly and abruptly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: He was here earlier, but he booked.
Synonyms: book
Related words: incunable
scroll
tome
volume
📚
document
text
manuscript
Derived words: ABC book
absey book
absey-book
account book
activity book
address book
airport book
alphabet book
American comic book
antibook
artbook
audiobook
audio-book
audio book
autograph book
baby book
back of the book
bankbook
bath book
beach book
birthday book
block book
blook
blot one's copy book
bluebook
blue book
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 board
book-bosomed
book-bound
book bowel
book bowel tendency
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
bookend
book end
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
bookish
bookism
bookist
bookjacket
book-keep
book-keeper
bookkeeper
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
bookless
booklet
booklift
booklight
booklike
booklined
bookling
booklist
book-lore
booklore
book lore
booklouse
book lover
booklover
Booklr
book lung
book-lung
bookly
bookmaker
bookmaking
bookman
bookmark
bookmarker
bookmatch
book-match
bookmate
book-minded
book-mindedness
book mite
bookmobile
bookmonger
book muslin
bookname
booknap
bookness
book nook
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 value
bookwards
bookware
book-ways
bookwheel
book-wise
bookwise
book word
book-word
bookwork
book world
book worm
bookworm
bookwright
book-wright
bookwriting
booky
brag book
brand book
Bread Book
bring to book
burn book
busy book
by-book
by-the-book
by the book
callbook
call someone every name in the book
case-book
casebook
case book
cashbook
chapter book
chartbook
checkbook
chequebook
cheque book
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
crossover book
cyberbook
databook
datebook
daybook
day book
deathbook
death book
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
guidebook
guide book
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
judge a book by its cover
keep the book
kiss the book
know every trick in the book
know like a book
landbook
lawbook
letterbook
little black book
log book
logbook
log-book
look book
lookbook
look-out book
magazine 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
notebook
note book
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
pocket book
pocket-book
pocketbook
poison book
poll book
pop-up book
prayer book
prebook
promptbook
prompt book
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
rule book
rulebook
rule-book
run book
runbook
rune book
said-bookism
salesbook
schoolbook
school book
scientibook
scorebook
scrap book
scrapbook
scriptbook
service book
set book
shopbook
sketch book
sketchbook
skybook
slambook
slam book
small book
song book
songbook
sourcebook
speak like a book
spellbook
splatbook
splat book
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
talebook
tale-book
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
timebook
time-book
time book
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
block-book
bookable
book away
book in
booking
book into
book off
book on
book up
double-book
overbook
rebook
unbook
underbook
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: bespreek
lang: Albanian
word: ze
lang: Arabic
word: حَجَزَ
roman: ḥajaza
lang: Bulgarian
word: запазвам
roman: zapazvam
lang: Catalan
word: reservar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 預訂 /预订
roman: yùdìng
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: ukaɗimia
lang: Czech
word: rezervovat
lang: Czech
word: zarezervovat
lang: Czech
word: zabukovat
lang: Czech
word: zamluvit
lang: Danish
word: reservere
lang: Danish
word: bestille
lang: Dutch
word: boeken
lang: Dutch
word: reserveren
lang: Esperanto
word: rezervi
lang: Finnish
word: varata
lang: Finnish
word: tehdä varaus
lang: French
word: réserver
lang: Galician
word: reservar
lang: Georgian
word: რეგისტრირება
roman: regisṭrireba
lang: Georgian
word: რეგისტრაციაში გატარება
roman: regisṭraciaši gaṭareba
lang: Georgian
word: დაბრონვა
roman: dabronva
lang: Georgian
word: ბრონირება
roman: bronireba
lang: German
word: buchen
lang: German
word: reservieren
lang: German
word: bueche
lang: Greek
word: κρατώ
roman: krató
lang: Greek
word: προκρατ
roman: prokrat
lang: Greek
word: κλείνω
roman: kleíno
lang: Hindi
word: आरक्षण
roman: ārakṣaṇ
lang: Hungarian
word: lefoglal
lang: Hungarian
word: foglal
lang: Hungarian
word: megvált
lang: Hungarian
word: vált
lang: Hungarian
word: előjegyez
lang: Indonesian
word: pesan
lang: Interlingua
word: reservar
lang: Irish
word: cuir in áirithe
lang: Italian
word: prenotare
lang: Italian
word: riservare
lang: Japanese
word: 予約する
roman: yoyaku-surú
lang: Korean
word: 예약(豫約)하다
roman: yeyakhada
lang: Macedonian
word: резерви́ра
roman: rezervíra
lang: Macedonian
word: закажува
roman: zakažuva
lang: Malay
word: tempah
lang: Māori
word: tāpui
lang: Marshallese
word: bok
lang: Norman
word: boutchi
lang: Norwegian
word: bestille
lang: Norwegian
word: reservere
lang: Pali
word: pariggaṇhāti
lang: Persian
word: رزرو کردن
roman: rezerv kardan
lang: Polish
word: rezerwować
lang: Polish
word: zarezerwować
lang: Polish
word: bukować
lang: Polish
word: zabukować
lang: Portuguese
word: reservar
lang: Romanian
word: rezerva
lang: Russian
word: брони́ровать
roman: bronírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: заброни́ровать
roman: zabronírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: резерви́ровать
roman: rezervírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: зарезерви́ровать
roman: zarezervírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: зака́зывать
roman: zakázyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: заказа́ть
roman: zakazátʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: predbilježiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rezervirati
lang: Slovak
word: rezervovať
lang: Slovak
word: zarezervovať
lang: Spanish
word: sacar
lang: Swedish
word: boka
lang: Thai
word: จอง
roman: jɔɔng
lang: Southern Thai
word: ฉุบ
lang: Tibetan
word: མངག་ཉོ་བྱེད
roman: mngag nyo byed
lang: Tibetan
word: ཟུར་འཇོག་བྱེད
roman: zur 'jog byed
lang: Tibetan
word: འཐོག
roman: 'thog
lang: Turkish
word: yer ayırma
lang: Ukrainian
word: бронюва́ти
roman: bronjuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: забронюва́ти
roman: zabronjuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: резервува́ти
roman: rezervuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: зарезервува́ти
roman: zarezervuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: замовля́ти
roman: zamovljáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: замо́вити
roman: zamóvyty
lang: Vietnamese
word: đặt chỗ
lang: Vietnamese
word: giữ chỗ
lang: Welsh
word: cadw
lang: Zazaki
word: ca abırnen
lang: Zazaki
word: weseynen