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bookplates

bookplates is the plural of bookplate.

Meaning of bookplate

Noun

bookplate (plural bookplates)

  1. 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

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Questions about bookplates

What is bookplates the plural of?
Bookplates is the plural of bookplate.

Words near bookplates in the dictionary

  1. bookoos
  2. Bookout
  3. Bookouts
  4. bookplate
  5. bookplated
  6. bookplates
  7. bookplating
  8. bookpress
  9. bookpresses
  10. bookrack
  11. bookracks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookplates (page history and authors); bookplate (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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