Definitions
Place where books and media are kept for reading or borrowing.
Word origin
From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse).
Used in a sentence
“She went to exchange her books at her local library.”
“Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]”
“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“Book-lending place”7 letters
02“Place to borrow books”7 letters
03“Place full of books”7 letters
04“Book-filled place”7 letters
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