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Definition library

Etymology

Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(?)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochus, bochous (“library, bookhouse”) (from Old English b?ch?s (“library, bookhouse”)). Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish libraría and Portuguese livraria. This is a recent innovation (16th century in French), displacing the earlier sense.

Noun

library (plural libraries)

1. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
2. (by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
3. A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
4. An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
5. (computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
6. A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
7. (card games) The deck or draw pile.

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