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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A list of the works of a specific author or publisher.
  2. n. A list of writings relating to a given subject: a bibliography of Latin American history.
  3. n. A list of writings used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work.
  4. n. The description and identification of the editions, dates of issue, authorship, and typography of books or other written material.
  5. n. A compilation of such information.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The writing of books.
  2. n. The science which treats of books, their materials, authors, typography, editions, dates, subjects, classification, history, etc.
  3. n. A classified list of authorities or books on any theme: as, the bibliography of political economy.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referenced in the work.
  2. n. A list of books or documents relevant to a particular subject or author.
  3. n. The study of the history of books in terms of their classification, printing and publication.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.
  2. n. a list of books or other printed works having some common theme, such as topic, period, author, or publisher.
  3. n. a list of the published (and sometimes unpublished) sources of information referred to in a scholarly discourse or other text, or used as reference materials for its preparation.
  4. n. the branch of library science dealing with the history and classification of books and other published materials.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek βιβλιογραφία (bibliographia, "the act or habit of writing books"), from βιβλιογράφος (bibliographos, "a writer of books"), from βιβλίον (biblion, "small book") + γράφω (graphō, "I write"). (Wiktionary)

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  • “= 1994} Your document should reference the source as follows: \\cite [p. 24] {latex} To make the bibliography appear in your document include these commands at the end where you want the bibliography to go: \\bibliography {filename} \\bibliographystyle {plain}”

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  • “Also traced in this bibliography is the evolution of the specific idea of affirmative action to the more nebulous concept of diversity in libraries.”

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  • “Sample excerpts from my other books and links to free short stories are here, and my bibliography is here and links to buy everything are here.”

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  • “This bibliography is an essential resource for those interested in bawdy songlore in English, French, German and a few other languages thrown in.”

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  • “Well, if what you call bibliography has produced such eminent men, and so many useful works, as those which have been just enumerated, I shall begin to have some little respect for this department of literature; and, indeed, I already feel impatient to go through the list of your bibliographical heroes.”

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  • “My goal is to publish a title bibliography, and that becomes a record of the book for future generations," Ewald said.”

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  • “Plus, a narrative bibliography is included to provide a discussion of the professional literature and topics covered in the book.”

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  • “In utter laziness, I decided to cheat and just send people to wikipedia for my bio, but the bibliography is now up to date, if you're intent on tracking down all my sundry scribblings.”

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  • “His entire bibliography is too long to mention, but some well-known titles include the Majipoor series, A Time of Changes, Nightwings, The Book of Skulls, Son of Man, Downward to the Earth, and Dying Inside.”

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  • “I'm trying to keep a list in bibliography form of what I read in history of children's literature for my research.”

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. listing
  1. list

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. glossary
  2. appendix
  3. compilation
  4. overview
  1. synopsis
  2. revision
  3. footnote
  4. biography
  1. foreword
  2. preface
  3. citation
  4. summary
  1. monograph
  2. rundown
  3. edit
  4. translation
  1. ____________________________________________________________________________
  2. abridgment
  3. commentary
  4. anthology
  1. dictionary
  2. introduction
  3. handbook
  4. enumeration

rhymes (24)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. astrophotography
  2. autobiography
  3. biography
  4. choreography
  1. chromatography
  2. cinematography
  3. crystallography
  4. demography
  1. echography
  2. geography
  3. hagiography
  4. historiography
  1. iconography
  2. lithography
  3. mammography
  4. oceanography
  1. orthography
  2. photography
  3. phytogeography
  4. polarography
  1. pornography
  2. radiography
  3. topography
  4. typography

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. bibliografy
  2. thackerayana
  3. ternion
  4. bibliographer
  1. bibliographic
  2. bibliology
  3. bibliographist
  4. bibliographize
  1. Gesner
  2. bibliognost
  3. bibliognostic
  4. pagination
  1. bibliography
  2. bibliographical
  3. polygraph
  4. Gothic
  1. incunabula
  2. separate
  3. series
  4. verbatim

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