BOOKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does booked mean? 

• BOOKED (adjective)
  The adjective BOOKED has 1 sense:

1. reserved in advance

  Familiarity information: BOOKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reserved in advance

Synonyms:

booked; engaged; set-aside

Similar:

reserved (set aside for the use of a particular person or party)

 Context examples 

When I booked my place at the coach office I had had “Box Seat” written against the entry, and had given the book-keeper half-a-crown.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I spent a few minutes in assisting a venerable Italian priest, who was endeavouring to make a porter understand, in his broken English, that his luggage was to be booked through to Paris.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Is there anybody here for a yoongster, booked in the name of Murdstone, from Bloonderstone, Sooffolk, but owning to the name of Copperfield, to be left till called for?” said the guard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The guard's eye lighted on me as he was getting down, and he said at the booking-office door: Is there anybody here for a yoongster booked in the name of Murdstone, from Bloonderstone, Sooffolk, to be left till called for?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)