bookalike
bookalike noun: something which closely resembles a book in some way.
Noun
bookalike (plural bookalikes)
- Something which closely resembles a book in some way.
- We can therefore extend the benefit of the doubt to all the Shanghai girls, babies, dolls, etc. out there for their bookalikes, and even for their catty copycatting, though one hopes that, for the sake of the genre, China's banal book title formula of [CITY NAME] + [GENDER-SPECIFIC SOBRIQUET] will...2013 May 1, Tom Carter, “Shanghai Girls Gone Copy-Catty”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023
- Judgement Day for the bookalikes2014 May 11, Francesca Angelini, “Judgement Day for the bookalikes”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2021
Forms of bookalike
| plural | bookalikes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | book-alike |
Origin of bookalike
Blend of book + lookalike.
Questions about bookalike
- What does bookalike mean?
- Bookalike means something which closely resembles a book in some way.
- What part of speech is bookalike?
- Bookalike is a noun.
- What is the plural of bookalike?
- The plural of bookalike is bookalikes.
Words near bookalike in the dictionary
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