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bookeries

bookeries is the plural of bookery.

Meaning of bookery

Noun

bookery (countable and uncountable, plural bookeries)

  1. (countable) a collection of books
    • The young lady of the period, whose average reading was one new novel per diem, had long before sought pastures new at Cobb's, or other bookeries.1878, Memorials of the Old Chicago Library
  2. (uncountable) study of or passion for books
    • Hood returned to London looking and feeling well and ready to take up his "bookery" again with renewed zest.1907, Thomas Hood: His Life and Times - Page 364

Questions about bookeries

What is bookeries the plural of?
Bookeries is the plural of bookery.

Words near bookeries in the dictionary

  1. bookended
  2. bookending
  3. bookends
  4. booker
  5. Booker Bay
  6. bookeries
  7. bookers
  8. bookery
  9. bookes
  10. booketeria
  11. booketerias

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