commonplace book

noun

: a book of memorabilia

Examples of commonplace book in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Garner, whose book reviews are a highlight of the Times culture pages, serves up a commonplace book composed of literary quotations, advice for living, recipes, and a heaping side order of memoir. — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

Teaching Resources Make Your Own Poetry Anthology Teaching students to make their own poetry anthologies in the form of a commonplace book gives them insight into the power, and problems, of curation. — JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025

Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed. — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1572, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for commonplace book

• betook
• casebook
• chapbook
• checkbook
• chinook
• codebook
• cookbook
• fishhook
• forsook
• guidebook
• handbook
• logbook