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library

Definition

  • noun: a place where books, magazines, and other materials (such as videos and musical recordings) are available for people to use or borrow
  • noun: a place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films) are kept for use but not for sale

Examples

  • He has an impressive 'library' of jazz records.

  • I borrowed the book from the school 'library'.

  • a 'library' of computer programs

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Movie quotes

  • (..) lay the workers' city below the earth, so high above it towered the complex named the "Club of the Sons," with its lecture halls and libraries, its theaters and stadiums. Fathers, for whom every revolution of a machine wheel meant gold, had created for their sons the miracle of the Eternal Gardens. (..)
    1927 Metropolis