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Roget category 593

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#593. Book

noun

bookletwriting, work, volume, tome, opusculetract, tractatelivretbrochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publicationchap book.
part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]album, portfolioperiodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
paper, bill, sheet, broadsheetleaf, leafletfly leaf, pagequire, ream.
[subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clauseendpapers, frontispiececover, binding.
folio, quarto, octavoduodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo.
encyclopediaencompilation.
[collection of books] library, bibliotheca.
press etc. (publication) 531.
[complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595.
[person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.], essayist, journalismpen, scribbler, the scribbling raceliterary hack, Grub-street writerwriter for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the pressadjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slingerpublicistreporter, penny a linereditor, subeditorplaywright etc. 599poet etc. 597.
bookseller, publisherbibliopole, bibliopolistlibrarianbookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books, bibliographybook learning etc. (knowledge) 490.

phrase

among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux [Fr.]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- the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; volumes that I prize above my dukedom" [Tempest].

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