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Antonyms for book

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : book
Phonetic Transcription : bÊŠk

Definition of book

Origin :
  • Old English boc "book, writing, written document," traditionally from Proto-Germanic *bokiz "beech" (cf. German Buch "book" Buche "beech;" see beech), the notion being of beechwood tablets on which runes were inscribed, but it may be from the tree itself (people still carve initials in them). The Old English word originally meant any written document. Latin and Sanskrit also have words for "writing" that are based on tree names ("birch" and "ash," respectively). Meaning "libretto of an opera" is from 1768. A betting book is from 1856.
  • noun published document
  • noun account; diary
  • verb register, arrange for
  • verb arrest
Example sentences :
  • Tis none other that the Dean sets forth, ay, and the book that I have here.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Of course they did not use the letters which have been used to print this book.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • "That's what your romantic boy out of a book has done," said Charles Merchant.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • I have not read his book, but its consequences speak for it.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • The distinctive principle of the book was that the State had a conscience.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • Cardinal Newman wrote: "Gladstone's book, as you see, is making a sensation."
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • He read with pencil in hand, and he had an elaborate system of marking a book.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • After their return in the summer he began to write his book, The Social Order.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • I am hoping that some readers will look on this collection primarily as a book of poems.
  • Extract from : « The Garden of Bright Waters » by Various
  • Into the darker secrets of the Book of Wishes we will not penetrate.
  • Extract from : « The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Synonyms for book

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