bookmark
- noun
- /ˈbʊkˌmɑrk/
- I always use a bookmark to keep my place in my favorite novels.
- buy bookmarks
- printed bookmarks
- provided a bookmark
I put down this bookmark right there and I just never continued.
- I put down this bookmark right there and I just never continued.
- And I was just like, So what do I use as a bookmark?
- I just flipped open to this page of some like Japanese erotic art and I have this as a bookmark that I got from the Vagina Museum.
- Cool. I don't think this is out yet. Oh, I like that. Comes with its own bookmark. Look at that. That's cool. I like that. Alright, thank you Ryan.
- But then she showed me the bookmark that John marked.
- So how many bookmarks is your house full of little book necks?
Examples
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All students were provided a bookmark that described a basic decoding strategy already being taught in the school curriculum.
Academic text (2014) -
Excuse me, do you happen to have a bookmark?
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I put down this bookmark right there and I just never continued.
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But he used it as a bookmark.
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Students were instructed to refer to the bookmark if they struggled to read a word.
Academic text (2014) -
Though I own many beautiful bookmarks, they are never there when I need them.
Fiction book (2000) -
I use it as a bookmark when I'm reading for school, or when I'm looking through magazines.
Fiction book (2002) -
I found a bookmark in this book from the Sisterhood bookstore in Los Angeles.
Academic text (2012) -
She's using one for a bookmark in a copy of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
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Many authors employ publicists who generate fancy bookmarks with series information and annual lists of forthcoming titles.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
An object you put between pages to mark where you left off
A corner of a book page folded down to mark where you stopped reading
How Durable
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Morphology
Etymology
Bookmark is simply the words book + mark, meaning a 'mark' put in a book to show your place. So a bookmark is the small paper or ribbon you put between pages to help you return to where you stopped.