BOOK BINDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does book binding mean? 

• BOOK BINDING (noun)
  The noun BOOK BINDING has 1 sense:

1. the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

  Familiarity information: BOOK BINDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOK BINDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

back; binding; book binding; cover

Context example:

the book had a leather binding

Hypernyms ("book binding" is a kind of...):

protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "book binding"):

half binding (book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another)

three-quarter binding (the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover)

Holonyms ("book binding" is a part of...):

book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)