bookend

English

Noun

bookend (plural bookends)

1. A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.

Translations

object designed to keep books upright

Chinese: Mandarin: 書擋 (cmn), 书挡 (cmn) (shūdǎng) Finnish: kirjatuki (fi) French: serre-livre (fr) m.

German: Buchstütze (de) f. Icelandic: bókastoð (is) f. Japanese: ブックエンド (ja) (bukkuendo) Swedish: bokstöd (sv) n.

Verb

bookend (third-person singular simple present bookends, present participle bookending, simple past and past participle bookended)

1. To come before and after, or at both sides of
   • 2006, Henry Owings & Patton Oswalt, The Overrated Book^[1], ISBN 0867196572, page 105:

     Side one has good songs bookended by better songs.

Synonyms

• flank