library
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[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarius (“‘concerning books’”), from librarium (“‘chest for books’”), from liber (“‘the inner bark of trees", "paper", "parchment", "book’”), probably derived from a Proto-IE base * (leub(h)), “‘to strip", "to peel’”)
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- (UK) IPA: /ˈlaɪbɹəɹɪ/, SAMPA: /"laIbr@ri/
- (US) IPA: /ˈlaɪ.bɹɛɹ.i/, SAMPA: /"laIbrEri/
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[edit] Noun
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library (plural libraries)
- An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
- A collection of books or other forms of stored information. An individual may refer to his collection of books and other items as his library.
- An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library
- (computer science) A collection of subprograms used to develop software.
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terms derived from library
[edit] Translations
institution which holds books etc.
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collection of books
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collection of records
collection of subprograms
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Categories: Anglo-Norman derivations | Old French derivations | Latin derivations | English nouns | Computer science | Latvian nouns lacking gender | Lithuanian nouns lacking gender | Entries with non-standard headers | Entries with non-standard headers (False friends) | 1000 English basic words | Buildings | False cognates and false friends in English

