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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A strip of material, as of ribbon or leather, or a metal clamp, that is placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A ribbon or other device placed between the pages of a book, to mark a place where reading is to begin, or to which reference is to be made.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
  2. n. computing A record of the address of a file or Internet page serving as a shortcut to it.
  3. n. databases A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
  4. v. computing, transitive To create a bookmark.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

WordNet 3.0

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

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  1. bookplate

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  1. marker

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  1. top-level
  2. toolbar
  3. drop-down
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  2. indymedia
  3. bleone
  1. fbi/legal
  2. nakilala
  3. playing card
  1. anch
  2. kasi
  3. alphabetical

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  1. book-marker
  1. marker

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  • reesetee They do, rocks, but they smell very different from new ones. Especially the leatherbound old ones. :-) Oct 31, 2007

  • reesetee Thanks, uselessness! I did forget. *slaps forehead* Oct 31, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets Books smell good when they're old, too. :) Oct 31, 2007

  • uselessness Check out above the fold, and don't forget that comments are searchable now. ;-) Oct 31, 2007

  • reesetee Books won't go away. They smell too good when they're new. :-)

    C_b, somewhere on Wordie (can't remember exactly where--anyone?), a few of us had a discussion similar to this about words that have acquired new meanings now that computers are ubiquitous. I remember some Wordies saying that they never had to physically "cut" or "paste" anything while writing/editing--although I vividly remember doing so myself. Oct 31, 2007

  • sonofgroucho Isn't dwindle a lovely word? Oct 31, 2007

  • john Interesting thought. I agree with uselessness, but even if books go away they'll persist like ghosts in our language, unnoticed. The way we all know what it is to be "on tenterhooks", without having any idea what a tenterhook is. Oct 31, 2007

  • uselessness Books will dwindle, but I doubt people will ever forget about them entirely... Oct 31, 2007

  • chained_bear I was wondering, last night, when in the course of human events this word will become as archaic and weird-sounding as, say, firkin. Will people one day wonder why those things you put on "favorite" lists in your web browser are called "bookmarks"? Will the Wordies of two centuries from now argue about its origins and etymology? Oct 31, 2007

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‘bookmark’ has been looked up 1781 times, added to 10 lists, commented on 9 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.