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lending libraries

lending libraries is the plural of lending library.

Meaning of lending library

Noun

lending library (plural lending libraries)

  1. A library from which books are lent out.
    • The use of three or four rooms under the old shareholders' room at Derby Station was granted, and a lending library was inaugurated.1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149

Questions about lending libraries

What is lending libraries the plural of?
Lending libraries is the plural of lending library.

Words near lending libraries in the dictionary

  1. lending a hand
  2. lending an ear
  3. lending hand
  4. lending hands
  5. lending itself to
  6. lending libraries
  7. lending library
  8. lendings
  9. lends
  10. lends a hand
  11. lends an ear

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