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bibliotheca
[ bib-lee-uh-thee-kuh ]
noun
- a collection of books; a library.
- a list of books, especially a bookseller's catalog.
- Obsolete. the Bible.
bibliotheca
/ ˌbɪblɪəʊˈθiːkə /
noun
- a library or collection of books
- a printed catalogue compiled by a bibliographer
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- bibli·o·thecal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bibliotheca1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bibliotheca1
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Example Sentences
I know not how the collection of the author of the Bibliotheca Lusitania became part of the royal library.
Any individual who has time and patience to expend ad libitum, cannot desire a fairer field of exercise than the ‘Bibliotheca.’
The last edition of the Bibliotheca bibliothecarum was printed at Leipzig in 1682.
Eight subject indexes—only the fourth is not alphabetical—make the Bibliotheca bibliothecarum fully usable.
A bibliotheca philosophica of that time would include as a matter of course everything but theology, law, and medicine.
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