Meaning

noun a room where books are kept

noun a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing

noun a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study

originFrom Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from…

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