library
An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
Example
“She went to exchange her books at her local library.”
Other meanings
Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
“You can check out a bandsaw from the tool library.”
A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
A kind of
- room
Related words
- cyberlibrary
- cybrary
- ebrary
- librametry
- librariana
- librarious
- libraryful
- librarying
- libraryless
- librarylike
- microlibrary
- multilibrary
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "librarium" (bookcase, chest for books).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “library” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.