Book
Nouns
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booklet
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writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule
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tract, tractate
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livret
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brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication
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chap book. part, issue
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album, portfolio
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periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal. paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet
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leaf, leaflet
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fly leaf, page
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quire, ream. [subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause
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endpapers, frontispiece
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cover, binding. folio, quarto, octavo
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duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo. encyclopedia
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encompilation. [collection of books] library, bibliotheca. press etc. (publication) Publication. [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) Dissertation. [person who writes a book] writer, author, essayist, journalism
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pen, scribbler, the scribbling race
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literary hack, Grub-street writer
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writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press
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adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger
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publicist
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reporter, penny a liner
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editor, subeditor
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playwright etc. The Drama
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poet etc. Poetry. bookseller, publisher
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bibliopole, bibliopolist
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librarian
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bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop. knowledge of books, bibliography
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book learning etc. (knowledge) Knowledge.
Phrases
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among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]
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for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]
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I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]
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look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]
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there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton]
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the public mind is the creation of the Master- the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]
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volumes that I prize above my dukedom" [Tempest].