book word (0 synonym found)

We don't have synonyms for book word yet — it may be a rare, specialized, newly coined, or misspelled word. The closest thesaurus entries we have are bookworm, book worm and boo word.

We don't have any synonyms for book word yet.

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bookworm  ·  book worm  ·  boo word  ·  took word  ·  bookwork  ·  good word

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Definition of book word:

(n) : (linguistics) A word that is encountered in writing but not usually in speech, which people may therefore not know how to pronounce (correctly).
(n) : (linguistics) A word that is borrowed into a vernacular from a closely related literary language, thus being etymologically related to native vocabulary, but not showing regular sound changes.
Definition of book word:

(n) : (linguistics) A word that is encountered in writing but not usually in speech, which people may therefore not know how to pronounce (correctly).
(n) : (linguistics) A word that is borrowed into a vernacular from a closely related literary language, thus being etymologically related to native vocabulary, but not showing regular sound changes.
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