Meaning

1 senses
  1. A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.

    Exlibris

More definitions
  • a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted

Examples

1 sentences
  1. This is my book. Do you see the bookplate here?

    ruЭто моя книга. Вот, видите экслибрис? — marafon

    deDas ist mein Buch. Sehen Sie das Exlibris hier? — mhr

Translations

6 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership:

Origin

From book + plate.

From book + plate.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: bookplates
Singularbookplate
Pluralbookplates

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted:ex libris

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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