lending library
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- noun
- /ˈlɛndɪŋ ˈlaɪbrəri/
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- The local lending library offers a wide selection of books that can be borrowed for three weeks.
- a public lending library
- the oldest lending library
- bookstores and lending libraries
Examples
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Digitally, I think a lending library is a brilliant idea.
Blog text (12) -
Wheelock looked like other small western Massachusetts towns: the center consisted of a simple white church and a lending library, a joint building for fire and police, the local coffee shop, and a dotting of old men who sat on stone benches and watched their lives slouch by.
Fiction book (2001) -
I just wanted to check out the lending library.
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I'd just like to check out the lending library.
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We're purely a lending library.
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The museum is developing a small educational center, which includes a small African art and culture lending library.
Academic text (2006) -
At the lending library, he took out a book called "The Will to Succeed" and read six chapters in a single night.
Fiction book (1999) -
Over 40,000 books are already in the lending library, with more entering every day.
Blog text (12) -
Katrina: At the St. John's Swapnplay, we have a lending library with party supplies.
Blog text (19) -
In 1963, Myathein became a member of the American Center, a cultural outpost of the U.S. Embassy in Yangon with a well-stocked lending library, a popular book club, and English-language classes.
Blog text (5)
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where people borrow, read, and study books
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A place where anyone can borrow books and use services for free
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9.2
A place with books you can read or borrow
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A library that lends books to members to take home
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a library that allows books to be borrowed' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'lending' (from lend: to transfer briefly) with 'library' (a place of books); the participial modifier indicates the library's function. This is a common, cross-linguistic noun + participle composition and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Lending library The name lending library comes from the simple idea of a library that lends books to people to take home. Imagine a librarian handing you a book to 'borrow', and that's why it means a library that lets you take books out for a set time.