Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A truck, trailer, or van equipped to serve as a mobile lending library.
Wiktionary
- n. A mobile library; especially, a large van designed to transport a portion of some library's collection.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore
Etymologies
- book + -mobile (Wiktionary)
- book + (auto)mobile. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The bookmobile, which is used to deliver books by the DeKalb County Library, did not clear a breezeway at Wills Creet Village assisted living that caused damage to the vehicle.”
“He calls the bookmobile "an important part of the community.”
“Tolstoy and the Purple Chair covers themes ranging from sorrow and loss to family and comfort, to remembrance and hope; it spans the time from my first visit to a bookmobile at age three across the decades to years later when I read a book a day, every day, for one year; and it includes real-life characters (family and friends) and the wonderful (or awful) characters I met in books.”
The Huffington Post: Nina Sankovitch: My First Book -- And My First Video Book Trailer
“If even one person lost a book, the bookmobile would boycott that entire village, choosing another to visit instead.”
Masha Hamilton describes the inspiration for her 2007 novel, The Camel Bookmobile
“The bookmobile which came to my school, eons ago, had age-specific sections.”
“I remember seeing the spine of it on the bookmobile -- did any of you have one of those in your area?”
“When I was in the bookmobile the other day, there was a kid there who didn't speak English so well but was watching all the people bringing in and taking away books.”
“This was the bookmobile, operated by the county library system.”
“She looks at me, here in front of the window, watching the boys so she won't have to worry and reading one of the stack of books I bring home every week from the bookmobile, and she shakes her head and starts again.”
“So we did three, four tours before that and then when we got a little bit of money together we bought a bookmobile but someone needed to have a trucker license to be able to drive this thing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bookmobile’.
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
bookkeeping, book, audio book, Booker T. Washington, Booker T. & the M..., book club, bookie, bookseller, bookshelf, bookworm, bookmaker, book learning and 132 more...
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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book phrases and words
having a look at book
book hand, book-farmer, booketeria, book-gill, book-fancier, book-form, book-fed, book-fair, book end, book-desk, book-debt, book-crab and 264 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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funny
I don't know why (maybe it's their sounds?), but these words make me laugh.
snorkel, bummer, stupefy, smackdown, sultana, muppet, fisticuffs, bookmobile, pickle, kipper, fathead, desperado and 1 more...
Tweets
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jennarenn I think our neighborhood was a little *too* suburban. We got a bookmobile once in my memory. Jun 19, 2007
reesetee Oh YES! I loved my bookmobile. :-) Jun 18, 2007
slumry One of the pleasures of my rural childhood. Jun 18, 2007