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bookholders

bookholders is the plural of bookholder.

Meaning of bookholder

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...

Questions about bookholders

What is bookholders the plural of?
Bookholders is the plural of bookholder.

Words near bookholders in the dictionary

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

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