bookbinder
US/ˈbʊkˌbaɪn.dəɹ/
bookbinder noun: a person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
Noun
bookbinder (plural bookbinders)
- A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
- Places of Employment: About 69,000 bookbinders and bindery workers were employed [in the United States] in 1978. Many worked in shops that specialize in bookbinding; others work in the bindery departments of book printing firms, commercial printing plants, and large libraries. Some bookbinders...1980, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Bookbinders and bindery workers”, in Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics), Bulletin 2075...
- During his seven-year apprenticeship to a bookbinder, [Michael] Faraday came across a single volume that changed his life: Isaac Watts's The Improvement of the Mind. Now largely forgotten, it was an early self-help book that contained a list of sixteen general rules for the improvement of...2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 79
- Synonyms:
- binder[Appendix:Glossary, bibliopegist
Proper noun capitalized: Bookbinder
Bookbinder
- A surname.
bookbinder meaning in Tagalog and Arabic
bookbinder in Tagalog
- person whose profession is binding books
- tagabalat-aklat
bookbinder in Arabic
- person whose profession is binding books
- صَحَّاف ṣaḥḥāf
Examples of bookbinder in a sentence
- Places of Employment: About 69,000 bookbinders and bindery workers were employed [in the United States] in 1978.1980, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Bookbinders and bindery workers”, in Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bulletin of the United...
- During his seven-year apprenticeship to a bookbinder, [Michael] Faraday came across a single volume that changed his life: Isaac Watts's The Improvement of the Mind.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 79:
Synonyms of bookbinder
- binder[Appendix:Glossary
- bibliopegist
Forms of bookbinder
| plural | bookbinders |
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Origin of bookbinder
From Middle English bokebynder, bok-bindere, equivalent to book + binder.
Questions about bookbinder
- What does bookbinder mean?
- Bookbinder means a person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
- What is bookbinder in Tagalog?
- Bookbinder in Tagalog is tagabalat-aklat. See Bookbinder meaning in Tagalog.
- How do you use bookbinder in a sentence?
- Places of Employment: About 69,000 bookbinders and bindery workers were employed [in the United States] in 1978.
- What part of speech is bookbinder?
- Bookbinder can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bookbinder?
- Bookbinder is pronounced /ˈbʊkˌbaɪn.dəɹ/ (US).
- What is the plural of bookbinder?
- The plural of bookbinder is bookbinders.
Words near bookbinder in the dictionary
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