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bookholder

bookholder noun: a support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.

bookholder: a support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying
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Noun

bookholder (plural bookholders)

  1. A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
  2. Someone who holds a book.
  3. (obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
    • they are out of their parts, sure: it may be 'tis the book-holder's fault1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...

bookholder meaning in Tamil

bookholder in Tamil

நாடகக்குறிப்பேட்டாளர்

Forms of bookholder

pluralbookholders
alternative formbook-holder

Origin of bookholder

From book + holder.

Questions about bookholder

What does bookholder mean?
Bookholder means a support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
What is bookholder in Tamil?
Bookholder in Tamil is நாடகக்குறிப்பேட்டாளர். See Bookholder meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bookholder?
Bookholder is a noun.
What is the plural of bookholder?
The plural of bookholder is bookholders.

Words near bookholder in the dictionary

  1. bookful
  2. bookfuls
  3. Bookham
  4. bookhoard
  5. bookhoards
  6. bookholder
  7. bookholders
  8. bookhood
  9. bookhound
  10. bookhounds
  11. bookhouse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookholder (page history and authors); bookholder (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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