Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A personal journal in which quotable passages, literary excerpts, and comments are written.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A book in which things especially to be remembered or referred to are recorded methodically.
Wiktionary
- n. a personal notebook or journal in which memorabilia, quotations etc were written
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a notebook in which you enter memorabilia
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘commonplace book’.
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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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Reading Materials
Names of printed materials meant to be read - for worship, pleasure, information, recitation; out of curiosity, or, in the case of adverts, to get our attention and sway our spending choices.
lectionary, epistolary, reading-book, novel, Bildungsroman, short story, billboard, advertisement, Sunday comics, obituaries, book of hours, primer and 84 more...
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A Salpicon of Random Palavery
More random words and phrases that reflect my eclectic, stream-of-consciousess style of word and idea gathering.
durometer, mock-grudge, nimini-pimini, chrisom, sine metu, monteverdian, tagh, monodic, sharakan, watermen, wherrymen, winged gudgeon and 137 more...
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I Can't Believe It's Not Listed
Words that, at the I put them here, weren't being listed by anyone else in the entire universe.
vagus, neoplanet, fadiddy, cazique, catastroika, circumciser, commonplace book, danseuse, ecopod, dichloroacetate, underlay, overlay and 374 more...
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hernesheir Some commonplace books were published. Ben Johnson's Timber (1640), and W.H. Auden's A Certain World (1971) are notable English language examples. Sep 23, 2009
bilby "Commonplace books did not become common until paper became readily available and literacy fairly widespread, roughly in 16th-century England. With the invention of the printing press and the accumulation of books, the serious reader realized that the sea of knowledge was incommensurable. A commonplace book would allow him to salvage at least a few pearls.
Commonplace books have been willed to heirs, not only as family keepsakes, but as manuals of instruction; when John Bunyan married in 1649, the sum total of his wife’s dowry was two commonplace books."
- Ian Hunter, 'My Commonplace Books', nationalpost.com, 20 August 2008. Sep 1, 2008