Entry Word: book

Function: noun

Meaning: 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, paperback, pocket book; folio, quarto; guidebook, handbook, manual; catalog (or catalogue), dictionary, encyclopedia; booklet, brochure, circular, flier (or flyer), folder, leaflet, magazine, pamphlet, program; textbook, tract, treatise; novel, novelette, pulp

2 capitalizeda 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> — see Bible