| Main Entry: | omnibus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compilation |
Synonyms: |
anthology, vehicle, whole |
| Main Entry: | anthology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | literary collection |
Synonyms: |
album, analect, compendium, compilation, digest, garland, omnibus, selection, treasury |
| Main Entry: | book |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | published document |
Synonyms: |
album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing |
| Main Entry: | collection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, accumulation |
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accumulating, acquiring, acquisition, agglomeration, amassing, amassment, anthology, assemblage, assembling, assembly, assortment, batch, bringing together, caboodle, clump, cluster, collation, combination, company, compilation, congeries, congregation, convocation, crowd, cumulation, digest, gathering, heap, hoard, kit, levy, lot, mass, medley, mess, miscellany, mobilization, muster, number, obtaining, omnibus, pile, quantity, securing, selection, set, stack, stock, stockpile, store |
| Concept: | Book. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
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-nouns
booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book., part, issue, number, livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal., paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream, chapter, section head, article, paragraph, passage, clause., folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo., encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press (publication)., writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny-a-liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; powt., bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore, bookseller's shop., knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning (knowledge).
-phrases
"among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton); "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; "volumes
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