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audio book

audio book is the alternative spelling of audiobook.

Meaning of audiobook

Noun

audiobook (plural audiobooks)

  1. A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.
    • Trump’s take on his relationship with Kim – and his admission that he didn’t have a broader strategy behind the threats he made about having a “much bigger” nuclear button – are part of a new audiobook that Woodward is releasing.2022 October 18, Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Jeremy Herb, “Exclusive: Bob Woodward releasing new audiobook ‘The Trump Tapes’ with eight hours of recorded interviews”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    talking book

Forms of audio book

pluralaudio books

Questions about audio book

What is audio book the alternative spelling of?
Audio book is the alternative spelling of audiobook.

Words near audio book in the dictionary

  1. audile
  2. audiles
  3. audimeter
  4. auding
  5. audio
  6. audio book
  7. audio books
  8. audio card
  9. audio cards
  10. audio cassette
  11. audio cassettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: audio book (page history and authors); audiobook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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