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You can make 12 words from book according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of book

book obok book obok oobk oobk boko obko bkoo kboo okbo kobo boko obko bkoo kboo okbo kobo ookb ookb okob koob okob koob

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word book. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in book.

Definitions and meaning of book

book

Pronunciation

• enPR: bo͝ok, IPA^(key): /bʊk/
• enPR: bo͞ok IPA^(key): /buːk/ (some speakers from Northern England and Ireland)
• IPA^(key): /bɵk/ (Pacific Northwest English)
• Homophone: buck (accents without the foot–⁠strut split)
• Rhymes: -ʊk

Etymology 1

From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.

Alternative forms

• boke (obsolete)
• booke (archaic)

Noun

book (plural books)

1. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.

2. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
3. A major division of a long work.

   Synonyms: tome, volume

5. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

6. (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
7. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.

   Synonym: booklet

8. (theater) The script of a musical or opera.

   Synonym: libretto
9. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.

   Synonyms: account, record

10. (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
11. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
12. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
13. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
14. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
15. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
16. (figurative) Any source of instruction.
17. (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
18. (advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
    • Idea Industry (page 27)

      Your portfolio — your book — has to be killer.

19. (chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.

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See also

• incunable
• scroll
• tome
• volume

Etymology 2

From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).

Verb

book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)

2. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

   Synonym: reserve

3. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

   They booked that message from the hill

   Synonyms: make a note of, note down, record, write down

4. (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

   I booked a flight to New York.

   Synonyms: sign up, register, reserve, schedule, enroll

5. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

   The police booked him for driving too fast.

6. (sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
7. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.

   He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.

   Synonyms: bomb, hurtle, rocket, speed, shoot, whiz

8. To record bets as bookmaker.
9. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.

   The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.

10. (intransitive, slang) To leave.

    He was here earlier, but he booked.

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Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”).

Verb

book

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past of bake

References

Anagrams

• Boko, Koob, boko, bòkò, kobo

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 卜

Etymology

From English book.

Pronunciation

Verb

book

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to book; to reserve

Related terms

• booking

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• bouk (Sittard, amongst other dialects)
  • Bouk (Eupen)
• Bock (Krefeld)

Etymology

From Middle Low German bôk, from Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːk/
• Hyphenation: book
• Rhymes: -oːk

Noun

book n

1. (many dialects) book

Derived terms

Mansaka

Noun

book

1. piece

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

book

1. Alternative form of bok

Etymology 2

Noun

book

1. Alternative form of bouk

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

book

1. imperative of booke