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The Meaning of book

  • (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
  • (n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
  • (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of \"Paradise Lost.\"
  • (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
  • (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
  • (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
  • (v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
  • (v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

Synonyms

volume , record , record book , script , playscript , ledger , leger , account book , book of account , rule book , Koran , Quran , al-Qur'an , Book , Bible , Christian Bible , Book , Good Book , Holy Scripture , Holy Writ , Scripture , Word of God , Word , reserve , hold

Rhymes

bankbook , benbrook , brook , brooke , checkbook , chinook , chook , cook , cookbook , cooke , create-a-book , crook , crooke , decook , donnybrook , flook , forsook , gobbledygook , gook , guidebook , handbook , holbrook , hook , hooke , hornbook , inglenook , jokebook , kirkuk , logbook , look , matchbook , mccook , mistook , mook , nook , notebook , outlook , overbook , overcook , overlook , overtook , passbook , pocketbook , precook , rebook , rook , rooke , rulebook , schnook , schook , schoolbook , scrapbook , shnook , shook , sketchbook , snook , storybook , stroock , strook , subnotebook , textbook , took , tooke , undercook , undertook , unhook , vanhook , westbrook , yearbook , zook