book – English noun declension

English noun forms of book

Noun: book
Singularbook
Pluralbooks

Sample Sentences

  • Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furniſhd me / From mine owne Library, with volumes, that / I prize aboue my Dukedome. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3, column 1:]
  • I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder. [1962, Luis Borges, translated by James East Irby, The Library of Babel:]
  • I can be anything.
  • Take a look!
  • It's in a book:
  • A reading rainbow. [1983, Steve Horelick et al., Reading Rainbow:]
  • Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’ [1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51:]
  • She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
  • He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
  • I have three copies of his first book.
  • “I would never read a book,” he once told an interviewer. “I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.” [2022 December 6, Stephen Marche, quoting Sam Bankman-Fried, “The College Essay Is Dead”, in The Atlantic:]
  • They read some books
  • Sharing their moods
  • They know everything
  • Whatever it can mean [2025 July 19, Pacifik, “Freethinker”, in Wonderfool, performed by Pacifik:]
  • Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
  • Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
  • I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
  • a book of stamps
  • a book of raffle tickets
  • a book of matches (matchbook)
  • The guild helps ensure that the ownership and control of the music, lyrics, and book of a show remain in the hands of its authors and composers—not the producers. [2010, David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page 172:]
  • Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close. [2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC:]
  • The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation. [1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero, page 11:]
  • On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player. [1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly, volume 21, page 36:]
  • Getting your book (portfolio) organised is the first step, and knowing both what to include, and what to leave out, is an essential step towards achieving that important agency placement. [2017, Nik Mahon, Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction, page 8:]
  • Your portfolio — your book — has to be killer. [Idea Industry (page 27)]
  • The opposite-colored bishops endgame is usually a book draw.
  • A book move
  • out of book
  • White to move and win. How can he do it? The BK plans a march to h8, eating the f4 pawn en route, for a book draw. [2018 April 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Schoolboy Vincent Keymer secures shock triumph at Grenke Open”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2023:]
  • This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook. In some cases a book draw is possible. But a book win is more likely. [2020, Andrew Soltis, How to Swindle in Chess, Batsford Books, →ISBN:]
  • This machinery was provided with a rotary drum with received upon its periphery the "books" of silk to be operated upon and presented them to travelling, combing, or dressing surfaces. The books were clamped and released automatically by the aid of bars formed with wedges and put in operation by screws […] [1867, John I. Knight, Mechanics Magazine, page 52:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
4. Proto-Germanic *bōks
5. Proto-West Germanic *bōk
6. Old English bōc
7. Middle English bok
8. English book
9. From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Bookmaker sense by clipping.
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots beuk, buik, buke (“book”), Yola buke (“book”), North Frisian Bok, buk, bök (“book”), Saterland Frisian Bouk (“book”), West Frisian, Dutch boek (“book”), Alemannic German Buech (“book”), Bavarian Buach (“book”), Central Franconian Booch, Buch (“book”), German, Luxembourgish Buch (“book”), German Low German Book (“book”), Limburgish book, Bouk (“book”), Vilamovian büch (“book”), Yiddish בוך (bukh, “book”), Danish bog (“book”), Elfdalian buok (“book”), Faroese, Icelandic bók (“book”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bok (“book”). See: Middle English Nouns 'bok', Old English Nouns 'bōc', Dutch Nouns 'boek', Danish Nouns 'bog', Icelandic Nouns 'bók', Swedish Nouns 'bok'.

Verbs referencing "book"

Dutch Nouns boek, German Nouns Buch, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bok, English Nouns beech, French Nouns bouquin, Zulu Nouns ibhuku.