Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bookmark

/ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English

Syllables
book-mark
IPA
/ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

noun

A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

noun

A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

verb

To create a bookmark.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/
  • British English: /ˈbʊkmɑːk/

Usage

Inflected Forms

bookmarks (plural) bookmarks (present, singular) bookmarking (participle, present) bookmarked (participle, past) bookmarked (past)

Derived Forms

bookmarklet bookmarkable unbookmarked

Synonyms

bookmarker favourites

Questions

How do you pronounce bookmark?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/.
What does bookmark mean?
A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
Where does bookmark come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce bookmark

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