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book world

noun

Etymology

From book + world. First use appears c. 1784 in the publications of Alexander Hamilton.

  1. inherited from *weraldiz✻ — “lifetime, human existence, world”
  2. inherited from *weraldi✻
  3. inherited from weorold — “world”
  4. inherited from world
  5. compounded as book world — “book + world”

Definitions

  1. The world of literature or publishing.

  2. Life or the world as described in literature

    Life or the world as described in literature; a fictional world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for book world. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA