bound
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4.6
- adjective
- /baʊnd/
:
encuadernado
- And all they carried was a book bound by black leather.
- a bound volume
- a bound book
- a bound copy
It's spiral bound, so I can, you know, do this.
- It's spiral bound, so I can, you know, do this.
- I mean, these are each one pretty significant homes if they were bound together in one single volume.
- They would be bound in in nice silk bindings, guilt edge pages.
- Behind me is my wife's half painted lions and we got a bunch of books, leather bound books.
Examples
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Sommerville laid a calf-bound volume on the cluttered desktop in front of Annabelle.
Fiction book (1990) -
And it was a lovely red cloth-bound book with a gold three-leaf clover stamped on the cover.
Fiction book (2000) -
Learners might then pick the bound volume to read in teams or individually.
Academic text (1996) -
A bound volume written by Galileo.
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In front of Murray sits a large, leather-bound volume of the federal budget.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's a thick, black, leather-bound chronicle of the life and times of a very busy man.
Fiction book (1995) -
Adele pulls a pocket-sized leather-bound book out of her purse and hands it to Pete.
Fiction book (2001) -
He gave her a beautifully bound book for her birthday, which was covered in red leather.
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The library features a collection of rare bound volumes that are highly valued by collectors.
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She prefers to read from traditional bound books rather than digital formats.
Synonyms
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3.5
A book with a hard cover that protects the pages
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4.4
A book with a cover made of cloth
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4.2
Put together by hand to hold pages, like a book or journal
A book with the spine covered in a different material from the covers
A book with a strong, neat cover and spine that keep the pages together
Bound with a thin paper cover rather than a hard cover
Has less material or strength than usual so books fall apart
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A small part added to a word that cannot stand alone, like -s in cats and -ed in walked
How Durable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bound for books comes from bind 'to tie', because pages are tied or fastened into a cover, so a leather-bound book is a book with a fixed cover.