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wordbook

noun
/ˈwɝdˌbʊk/US/ˈwɜːdˌbʊk/UK

Etymology

1590, from word + book. Compare West Frisian wurdboek (“dictionary”), German Low German Woordenbook, Wöörbook (“dictionary”), Dutch woordenboek (“dictionary”), German Wörterbuch (“dictionary”), Danish ordbog (“dictionary”), Swedish ordbok (“dictionary”).

  1. inherited from *bōks✻
  2. inherited from *bōk✻
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. compounded as wordbook — “word + book”

Definitions

  1. A reference book that lists words.

  2. The libretto of an opera.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordbook. 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