Word Meanings - LIBRARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bookseller's shop, book trade, formerly, a library, fr. libraire bookseller, L. librarius, from liber book; cf. libraria bookseller's 1. A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a

Additional info about word: LIBRARY

bookseller's shop, book trade, formerly, a library, fr. libraire bookseller, L. librarius, from liber book; cf. libraria bookseller's 1. A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library. 2. A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books. Holland.

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• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• LIBERATORY
  Tending, or serving, to liberate.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• LIBERTINAGE
  Libertinism; license.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• LIBERTINE
  A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• LIBERTARIAN
  Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• MERCHANDISER
  A trader. Bunyan.
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• LIBERATION
  The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• LIBERTICIDE
  1. The destruction of civil liberty. 2. A destroyer of civil liberty. B. F. Wade.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• DELIBERATOR
  One who deliberates.