fake book
- noun
- /feɪk bʊk/
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libro falso
- To impress guests, he filled the shelves with fake books that looked like antique volumes.
Examples
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The interior designer used fake books to give the office a scholarly atmosphere without buying real ones.
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The store sells many fake books for decoration.
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She discovered that the beautiful leather-bound tomes were actually fake books hiding storage compartments.
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I bought a fake book for my bookshelf.
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The interior designer used fake books to give the office a scholarly atmosphere without buying real ones.
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To impress guests, he filled the shelves with fake books that looked like antique volumes.
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She discovered that the beautiful leather-bound tomes were actually fake books hiding storage compartments.
Synonyms
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3.5
An object made to look real to trick people
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6.0
A copy of a document or object made to look real to trick people
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6.0
A copy of a popular product made without the owner's permission
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3.5
A thing made to look like something real to trick people
How Decorative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'fake' (not genuine) modifying 'book' yields an object that looks like a book but is not a real/functional book. This adjective+noun pattern is common and predictable across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the intended meaning.
Etymology
Fake book comes from a simple image: it is a fake that looks like a book, often hollow or made to match other books on a shelf. People used them as 'decoration' or to hide small items, so today fake book means an object made to look like a book to give the 'appearance of a library'.