Definition of library

"library" in the noun sense

1. library

a room where books are kept

"they had brandy in the library"

2. library

a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing

3. library, depository library

a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study

4. library, program library, subroutine library

computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use

5. library

a building that houses a collection of books and other materials

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Quotations for library

Medicine for the soul. [ Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes ]

I love to browse in a library. [ Johnson ]

A good library is a great kingdom. [ Magliabecchi ]

My library was dukedom large enough. [ William Shakespeare ]

Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]

My library is a friend of a thousand years. [ Kyo-Sya ]

A great library contains the diary of the human race. [ Dawson, Address on Opening the Birmingham Free Library ]

A man will turn over half a library to make one book. [ Samuel Johnson ]

The great consulting-room of a wise man is a library. [ George Dawson ]

A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. [ H. W. Beecher ]

A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. [ N. P. Willis ]

He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. [ William Godwin ]

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pin-heads. [ Holmes ]

The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner. [ Oxenstiern ]

A library is a precious catacomb, wherein are embalmed and preserved imperishably the great minds of the dead who will never die. [ Chatfield ]

God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. [ T. Fuller ]

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. [ S. Smiles ]

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner: it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many. [ Seneca ]

A good library is an anchor to keep a young man from roving, and a helm to aid an old man to gain the greatest possible benefit from what remains of the breeze. [ W. D. Haley ]

He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world, and the glories of a modern one. [ Longfellow ]

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this. [ William Ellery Channing ]

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits. [ Chamfort ]

No possession can surpass, or even equal, a good library to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures which never cloy. [ John Alfred Langford ]

The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance around his book-shelves. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library (the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford). [ James I ]

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-travelling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor; the ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise; odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. [ R. A. Willmott ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]

library in Scrabble®

The word library is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters library:

LIBRARY
(98 = 48 + 50)
LIBRARY
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word library

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In library

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library in Words With Friends™

The word library is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters library:

LIBRARY
(110 = 75 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

library

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word library

LIBRARY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In library

LIBRARY
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LIBRARY
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Words within the letters of library

2 letter words in library (7 words)

3 letter words in library (11 words)

4 letter words in library (15 words)

5 letter words in library (3 words)

7 letter words in library (1 word)

library + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence library

Words that start with library (2 words)

Words with library in them (1 word)

Words that end with library (3 words)

Word Growth involving library

Shorter words in library

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bra

Longer words containing library

interlibrary

libraryless

nonlibrary