books
Bound written or printed works.
How often you will meet it
Rank 730 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 25,708 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.012% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- Bound written or printed works.
books in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Books are well written, or badly written.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Editions of Dante and books about Dante crowd his room--they are constantly coming.
The Crown of Life · George Gissing · Chapter 1
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For now the few classic books they owned, so cold and dry, existed no longer.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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A popular actress had entered her name on the ship's books, but something interfered and she couldn't go.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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Agnes had just finished her last task and was throwing her books into a drawer, each more violently than the other.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1