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Borgesian library

Borgesian library noun: a fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.

Noun

Borgesian library (plural Borgesian libraries)

  1. A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.

Forms of Borgesian library

pluralBorgesian libraries

Origin of Borgesian library

After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).

Questions about Borgesian library

What does Borgesian library mean?
Borgesian library means a fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.
What part of speech is Borgesian library?
Borgesian library is a noun.
What is the plural of Borgesian library?
The plural of Borgesian library is Borgesian libraries.

Words near Borgesian library in the dictionary

  1. Borgers
  2. Borges
  3. Borgeses
  4. Borgesian
  5. Borgesian libraries
  6. Borgesian library
  7. Borgeson
  8. Borgesons
  9. Borggreve rotation
  10. borghetti
  11. borghetto

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