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bank-book

bank-book is the alternative spelling of bankbook.

Meaning of bankbook

Noun

bankbook (plural bankbooks)

  1. (transferred sense) wealth
    • Her folks, they said, our lives together
      Sure was gonna be rough
      They never did like Mama's homemade dress
      Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue

Forms of bank-book

pluralbank-books

Questions about bank-book

What is bank-book the alternative spelling of?
Bank-book is the alternative spelling of bankbook.

Words near bank-book in the dictionary

  1. bank vole
  2. bank voles
  3. bank-a-ball
  4. bank-and-turn indicator
  5. bank-and-turn indicators
  6. bank-book
  7. bank-books
  8. bank-bursting
  9. bank-robber
  10. bank-robbers
  11. bank-run

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bank-book (page history and authors); bankbook (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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