Meaning

3 senses
  1. A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

    He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.

    Lesezeichen

    закла́дкаzakládka, ляссе́ljassɛ́

    закла́дкаzakládka

    a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place

  2. A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

    Lesezeichen, Bookmark

    закла́дкаzakládka, и́збранноеízbrannoje, бу́кмаркbúkmark

  3. A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

Examples

34 sentences
  1. I bookmarked this website.

    Я додав цей сайт до улюблених сайтів.

    ruЯ добавил этот сайт в закладки.

    deIch habe auf dieser Webseite ein Lesezeichen gesetzt.

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  2. I forgot to bookmark that page.

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  3. Tom used an old postcard as a bookmark.

    deTom verwendete eine alte Postkarte als Lesezeichen.

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  4. I've bookmarked that page.

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  5. You should bookmark this webpage.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
strip used to mark a place in a book:
Русский
By meaning 2
strip used to mark a place in a book:
record of the address of a file or page:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
strip used to mark a place in a book:
record of the address of a file or page:

Origin

From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmar

From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).

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Forms

plural: bookmarks
Singularbookmark
Pluralbookmarks

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
bookmarkerfavourites
Close in meaning
  • a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place:bookmarker

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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