bookmark
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 8
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Definition of bookmark
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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noun
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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.”
- A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
- A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
verb
- (transitive)To create a bookmark.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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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