bookmark

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈbʊkmɑːk/
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/ˈbʊkmɑːk/ · /ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/ · /ˈbɵkmɑːk/ · /ˈbuːkmɑːk/ · /ˈbʉkmaɾk/ · /ˈbʉkmaɹk/

Definition of bookmark

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

  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.”
  2. A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
  3. A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

verb

  1. (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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