bookmark
/ˈbʊkmɑːk/US/ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/
bookmark noun: a strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
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Noun
bookmark (plural bookmarks)
- A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
- He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.
- Synonyms:
- bookmarker
- A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
- Synonyms:
- favourites
- A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
Verb
bookmark (third-person singular simple present bookmarks, present participle bookmarking, simple past and past participle bookmarked)
- To create a bookmark.
bookmark meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bookmark in Hindi
- बुकमार्क, बूकमार्क, बुकमार्क करें
bookmark in Tamil
- பக்கக்குறி, நூற்குறி, புத்தகக்குறி, இறந்தக்கால குறி
bookmark in Marathi
- strip used to mark a place in a book
- बुकमार्क bukmārka
- record of the address of a file or page
- बुकमार्क bukmārka
bookmark in Urdu
- بک مارک, بکمارک, کتابی نشان
More languagesFewer languages
- bookmark in Bengali
- বুকমার্ক, বুকমার্ক করতে, বুকমার্ক করার জন্য
- bookmark in Telugu
- బుక్మార్క్, బుక్ మార్క్, బుక్మార్కు
- bookmark in Malayalam
- ബുക്ക്മാർക്ക് bukkmāṟkkŭ
- bookmark in Kannada
- ಬುಕ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್, ಬುಕ್ಮಾರ್ಕು, ಬುಕ್ ಮಾರ್ಕ್
- bookmark in Punjabi
- ਬੁੱਕਮਾਰਕ, ਪੁੱਕਮਾਰਕ, ਬੁੱਕਮਾਰਕ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- bookmark in Gujarati
- બુકમાર્ક, બૂકમાર્ક, બુકમાર્ક કરવા માટે
- bookmark in Odia
- ଥୋକ thoka
- bookmark in Nepali
- बुकमार्क, बुकमार्क गर्न
- bookmark in Malay
- penanda buku
- bookmark in Thai
- ที่คั่นหนังสือ tîi-kân-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ
- bookmark in Vietnamese
- thẻ đánh dấu, dấu trang
Examples of bookmark in a sentence
- How do I unfavorite an online bookmark?
- Physical bookmarks based on collectional artefacts and metadata actions are proposed.
- In the browser, WebApps share a cookie store, bookmarks, and history.
Synonyms of bookmark
Forms of bookmark
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bookmarks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bookmarks |
| present participle | bookmarking |
| past participle | bookmarked |
| past | bookmarked |
Origin of bookmark
From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).
Words formed from bookmark
Questions about bookmark
- What does bookmark mean?
- Bookmark means a strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
- What is bookmark in Hindi?
- Bookmark in Hindi is बुकमार्क, बूकमार्क, बुकमार्क करें. See Bookmark meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bookmark?
- Bookmark can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bookmark?
- Bookmark is pronounced /ˈbʊkmɑːk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bookmark?
- The plural of bookmark is bookmarks.
Words near bookmark in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bookmark (page history and authors); bookmark (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bookmark (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bookmark (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bookmark (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bookmark (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ബുക്ക്മാർക്ക് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); bookmark (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bookmark (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bookmark (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଥୋକ (Odia) (page history and authors); bookmark (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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