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bookware

bookware noun: software that is published in, or distributed with, a book.

Noun

bookware (uncountable)

  1. Software that is published in, or distributed with, a book.
    • This was especially true of BASIC program anthologies, a particularly important area of bookware for TI owners.1984, Michael Nicita, Ronald Petrusha, The reader's guide to microcomputer books
    • The problem with bookware is that it quickly gets out of date.1995, Craig Hunt, Networking personal computers with TCP/IP

Origin of bookware

From book + -ware.

Questions about bookware

What does bookware mean?
Bookware means software that is published in, or distributed with, a book.
What part of speech is bookware?
Bookware is a noun.

Words near bookware in the dictionary

  1. booktubers
  2. Bookwalter
  3. Bookwalters
  4. bookward
  5. bookwards
  6. bookware
  7. bookways
  8. bookwheel
  9. bookwheels
  10. bookwise
  11. bookword

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