bookend
/ˈbʊkɛnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
noun
Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
Example Sentences
- "The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year[…]"
- "In both Episode 1 and Episode 9, which serve as bookends, Burns found fascinating footage of a 1938 event at which President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to living veterans who wore the Blue and the Gray; […]"
- "[…] radio techniques, including the use of sound montage and the placement of musical "bookends" at the beginning and end of radio programs […]"
- "And it seemed, perhaps fancifully, that those two moments had become the bookends of a generation and of a nation’s frayed sense of equilibrium."
- "In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell."
- "Side one has good songs bookended by better songs."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʊkɛnd/
- British English: /ˈbʊkɛnd/