Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   library

   /ˈlʌɪb(rə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution: "a university library"
   • ▪ a collection of books and periodicals held in a library: "the Institute houses an outstanding library of 35,000 volumes on the fine arts"
   • ▪ a room in a private house where books are kept: "there was a library that Uncle Hilbert used as his study"
   • ▪ a series of books or recordings issued by a company as a set.
   • ▪ a collection of films, recorded music, etc., organized systematically and kept for research or borrowing: "a record library"
   • ▪ a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use: "download any of thousands of programs from our software libraries"

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin libraria ‘bookshop’, feminine (used as a noun) of librarius ‘relating to books’, from liber, libr- ‘book’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • B

     3

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • Y

     4

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points