Library

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library
 * 4)  A collection of subprograms used to develop software.

Derived terms

 * Borgesian library
 * interlibrary
 * librarian
 * librarial
 * library and information science
 * library assistant
 * library catalog


 * library hand
 * library science
 * mobile library
 * record library
 * public library
 * school library

Adjectives for Library
provincial; extensive; circulating; immense; somber; reference; astronomical; valuable; comprehensive; well-balanced; technical.

Verbs for Library
bequeath to—; browse in—; bury in—; cherish—; confine to—; drink from—; endow—; enrich—; establish—; labor in—; refer to—; repose in—; resort to—; revel in—; shelve in—; subscribe to—; —circu¬lates; —collects; —entombs; —feeds; — fines; —lends; —nourishes; —preserves; — records; —safeguards; —stores.

Thesaurus
ALA, American Library Association, Bodleian Library, British Museum, Festschrift, Indian reservation, Library of Congress, Vatican Library, ana, anthology, aquarium, archives, armory, arsenal, atelier, athenaeum, attic, back number, bank, basement, bay, bibliotheca, bin, bird sanctuary, body, bonded warehouse, book wagon, bookcase, bookery, bookmobile, bookroom, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, chrestomathy, circulating library, closet, collectanea, collection, compilation, conservatory, copy, corpus, crate, crib, cupboard, data, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, edition, exchequer, florilegium, forest preserve, fund, game reserve, glory hole, godown, hold, holdings, hutch, impression, issue, lending library, library edition, locker, loft, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, menagerie, museum, national forest, national park, number, office, paradise, park, preserve, printing, public library, rack, raw data, reading room, rental library, repertory, repository, reservation, reserve, reservoir, rick, sail loft, sanctuary, school edition, series, set, shelf, stack, stack room, stacks, state forest, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, studio, study, supply base, supply depot, tank, trade book, trade edition, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, volume, warehouse, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, wine cellar, workroom, zoo

Etymology
librarie:, from librarie:, from  librairie:, from  librarium:, from librarius:, from liber:, probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *undefined:. Displaced native bochus, bochous "library, bookhouse" (from  bōchūs "library, bookhouse").

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Belarusian: бібліятэка
 * Bengali: গ্রন্থাগার
 * Bosnian: biblioteka
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, लाइब्रेरी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bókasafn
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: biblioteka
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: perpustakaan, kutubkhanah
 * Manx:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: biblioteca
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: библиотека, biblioteka,  књижница,  knjižnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Tswana:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: бібліотека
 * Urdu: لائبریری
 * Uzbek: kutubxona
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: bukem
 * Welsh:


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 双書


 * Korean: 장서
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Mandarin: 藏書, 藏书,
 * Old English: bōchōrd
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian: bibliotecă
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, or libreria
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog:
 * Volapük: bukem
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, levystö
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:
 * Scots:
 * Swahili:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 文庫, 文库,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ohjelmakirjasto
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: ライブラリー
 * Korean: 라이브러리
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Swahili:


 * : biblioteek (1,2), boekerij  (1,2)
 * : (máktaba)
 * : liburutegia
 * : levraoueg
 * : библиотека (biblioteka)
 * : biblioteca
 * : lyverva
 * : biblioteko
 * : raamatukogu
 * : silid-aklatan, basa-han
 * : ბიბლიოთეკა (bibliot‘eka)
 * : atuagaa
 * : bókasafn
 * : biblioteko
 * : perpustakaan
 * : bibliotheca
 * : (bŭnnālai)
 * : bibliothēca, librarium


 * : библиотека (bibliotéka)
 * : perpustakaan
 * : bibljoteka, librerija
 * : whare pukapuka
 * : номын сан (nomiin san)
 * : girjerádju
 * : bibliotek
 * : biblioteca
 * : ਪੁਸਤਕਾਲਾ
 * : laeborari
 * : knižnica
 * : knjižnica
 * : biblioteca (1,2)
 * : bibliotek
 * : aklatan
 * : (hông sàmòot)
 * : layiburari
 * : kütüphane
 * : laiburari
 * : thư viện, phòng đọc sách
 * : laiburari
 * : thư viện, phòng đọc sách