library
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.bɹi/
The English word “library” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
- Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
- A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
- A collection of information or reference materials not in book form.
- A room dedicated to storing books.
- A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
- A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
- The deck or draw pile.
Etymology
From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from…
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More English words
- librarianly
- librarianship
- librarious
- librarius
- library and information science
- library assistant
- library card
- library catalog
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