bookplate
bookplate noun: a printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
Noun
bookplate (plural bookplates)
- A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
- By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
Verb
bookplate (third-person singular simple present bookplates, present participle bookplating, simple past and past participle bookplated)
- To affix a bookplate to (a book).
Forms of bookplate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bookplates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bookplates |
| present participle | bookplating |
| past participle | bookplated |
| past | bookplated |
Origin of bookplate
From book + plate.
Questions about bookplate
- What does bookplate mean?
- Bookplate means a printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
- What part of speech is bookplate?
- Bookplate can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of bookplate?
- The plural of bookplate is bookplates.
Words near bookplate in the dictionary
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