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COMMONPLACE BOOK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does commonplace book mean?
• COMMONPLACE BOOK (noun)
The noun COMMONPLACE BOOK has 1 sense:
1. a notebook in which you enter memorabilia
Familiarity information: COMMONPLACE BOOK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A notebook in which you enter memorabilia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("commonplace book" is a kind of...):
notebook (a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda)
Context examples
When our visitor was silent Holmes stretched out his hand and took down letter “S” of his commonplace book.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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