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commonplace-book

commonplace-book is the alternative form of commonplace book.

Meaning of commonplace book

Noun

commonplace book (plural commonplace books)

  1. A personal notebook or journal in which memorabilia, quotations, etc., are written.
    • I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book.1910, Samuel Butler, chapter 2, in Unconscious Memory
    Synonyms:
    commonplace

Forms of commonplace-book

pluralcommonplace-books

Questions about commonplace-book

What is commonplace-book the alternative form of?
Commonplace-book is the alternative form of commonplace book.

Words near commonplace-book in the dictionary

  1. commonpeople
  2. commonperson
  3. commonplace
  4. commonplace book
  5. commonplace books
  6. commonplace-book
  7. commonplace-books
  8. commonplaced
  9. commonplaceism
  10. commonplaceisms
  11. commonplacely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commonplace-book (page history and authors); commonplace book (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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