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book-holder

book-holder is the alternative form of bookholder.

Meaning of bookholder

Noun

bookholder (plural bookholders)

  1. A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
  2. Someone who holds a book.
  3. (obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
    • they are out of their parts, sure: it may be 'tis the book-holder's fault1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...

Forms of book-holder

pluralbook-holders

Questions about book-holder

What is book-holder the alternative form of?
Book-holder is the alternative form of bookholder.

Words near book-holder in the dictionary

  1. book-ends
  2. book-farmer
  3. book-farmers
  4. book-ghoul
  5. book-ghouls
  6. book-holder
  7. book-holders
  8. book-hunt
  9. book-hunted
  10. book-hunting
  11. book-hunts

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