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wimmelbook

wimmelbook noun: a picture book containing large drawings of detailed scenes full of people, animals, and objects.

Noun

wimmelbook (plural wimmelbooks)

  1. A picture book containing large drawings of detailed scenes full of people, animals, and objects.
    • Reading a wimmelbook thus becomes an intrinsically rewarding act of experiencing oneself and the world.2011, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Emergent Literacy: Children's Books from 0 to 3, page 129

Forms of wimmelbook

pluralwimmelbooks

Origin of wimmelbook

Partial calque of German Wimmelbilderbuch (“teeming picture book”).

Questions about wimmelbook

What does wimmelbook mean?
Wimmelbook means a picture book containing large drawings of detailed scenes full of people, animals, and objects.
What part of speech is wimmelbook?
Wimmelbook is a noun.
What is the plural of wimmelbook?
The plural of wimmelbook is wimmelbooks.

Words near wimmelbook in the dictionary

  1. wimicked
  2. wimicking
  3. wimicks
  4. wimin
  5. wimme
  6. wimmelbook
  7. wimmelbooks
  8. wimmen
  9. Wimmera
  10. wimmick
  11. wimmicked

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