book

book

noun

Definition of BOOK

1

a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction <I bought another new book yesterday, and I can't wait to read it>

Synonyms tome, volume

Related Words hardback, hardcover, paper, paperback, paperbound, pocket book, pocket edition, softback, softcover, trade book, trade edition; folio, quarto; guidebook, handbook, how-to, manual; catalog (or catalogue), cyclopedia (also cyclopaedia), dictionary, encyclopedia; monograph, primer, text, textbook, tract, treatise; novel, novelette, pulp; album, almanac, anthology, casebook, chapbook, nonbook, omnibus, picture book

2

cap a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God <offered to swear on the Book that everything had happened just as he said>

Synonyms Book, Good Book, Holy Writ, Scripture

Related Words Polyglot

3

a publication that appears at regular intervals <older people in these parts still tend to call a magazine a book>

Synonyms book, bulletin, diurnal, gazette, mag, magazine, newspaper, organ, paper, periodical, rag, review, serial, zine

Related Words annual, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly, quarterly, semimonthly, semiweekly, triweekly, weekly, yearbook; digest, little magazine; fanzine; pictorial, slick; broadside, edition, extra, sheet, supplement, tab, tabloid; newsletter, newsmagazine, newsweekly

4

information not generally available to the public <what's the book on the new company president?>

Synonyms book, 411 [slang], inside, lowdown, poop [slang], scoop, skinny [slang], tip

Related Words dirt, dish, gossip, rumor, story; hint, pointer; information, intelligence, news, tidings, word

Near Antonyms ancient history, open secret