Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A collection of books; a library.
  • noun A catalog of books.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A library; a place to keep books; a collection of books.
  • noun The Bible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A library.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A library.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a collection of books

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin bibliothēca, from Greek bibliothēkē : biblio-, biblio- + thēkē, case; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

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Borrowed from Latin bibliotheca. See bibliotheke.

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Examples

  • At first his superiors commissioned him to edit the "bibliotheca" (Myriobiblion) of Photius.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Note 18: Ebrard of Béthune, Liber antiheresis (written before 1212), in Maxima bibliotheca veterum patrum 224, 1525 — 84. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Opera omnia ¦ haetenus edita auctor ante obitum recensuit ¦ posthuma vero, totius naturae explicationem complectentia, in lucem nunc primum prodeunt ex bibliotheca ¦ Henrici-Ludovici-Haberti Mon-Morii ¦ [Accessit Samuelis Sorberii praefatio, in qua de vita et moribus Petri Gassendi disseritur.]

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • Besides private libraries, each large Mosque had its bibliotheca, every MS. of which was marked with the word “Wakf” (entailed bequest), or

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • The sacred edifice, completely in their hands, was soon laid waste; they broke down the altars, destroyed the monuments, and -- much will the bibliophile deplore it -- set fire to their immense library "_ingens bibliotheca_," maliciously tearing into pieces all their valuable and numerous charters, evidences, and writings.

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • "Similiter et de libris, quorum magna in bibliotheca sua copiam congregavit: statuit ut ab iis qui eos habere uellet, justo pretio redimeretur, pretin in pauperes erogaretur."

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • Apud desidiosissimos ergo videbis quicquid orationum historiarumque est, tecto tenus exstructa loculamenta; jam enim inter balnearia et thermas bibliotheca quoque ut necessarium domus ornamentum expolitur.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • Besides several _Biblia optima in duobus voluminibus_, or complete copies of the Bible, many separate books of the inspired writers are noted down; indeed the catalogue lays before us a superb array of fine biblical treasures, rendered doubly valuable by copious and useful glossaries; and embracing many a rare Hebrew MS. Bible, _bibliotheca hebraice_, and precious commentary.

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • Aiming at historical fulness and fidelity, we turned to our national bibliotheca at the British Museum, where we fished out of the vasty deep of treasures a MS. without date or name.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • 'Pellibus exiguis artatur Livius ingens, quem mea non totum bibliotheca capit.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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