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bookcrossing

bookcrossing is the present participle and gerund of bookcross.

Meaning of bookcross

Verb

bookcross (third-person singular simple present bookcrosses, present participle bookcrossing, simple past and past participle bookcrossed)

  1. To leave a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do likewise.

Noun

bookcrossing (countable and uncountable, plural bookcrossings)

  1. The practice of leaving a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do the same.

Forms of bookcrossing

pluralbookcrossings

Questions about bookcrossing

What does bookcrossing mean?
Bookcrossing means the practice of leaving a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do the same.
What is bookcrossing the present participle and gerund of?
Bookcrossing is the present participle and gerund of bookcross.
What part of speech is bookcrossing?
Bookcrossing is a noun.
What is the plural of bookcrossing?
The plural of bookcrossing is bookcrossings.

Words near bookcrossing in the dictionary

  1. bookclubs
  2. bookcraft
  3. bookcross
  4. bookcrossed
  5. bookcrosses
  6. bookcrossing
  7. bookcrossings
  8. bookdealer
  9. bookdealers
  10. bookdom
  11. booke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookcrossing (page history and authors); bookcross (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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