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bookery

bookery noun: a collection of books.

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

Forms of bookery

pluralbookeries

Origin of bookery

From book + -ery.

Questions about bookery

What does bookery mean?
Bookery means a collection of books.
What part of speech is bookery?
Bookery is a noun.
What is the plural of bookery?
The plural of bookery is bookeries.

Words near bookery in the dictionary

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

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