commonplace book
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A personal notebook or journal in which memorabilia, quotations, etc., are written.
Example Sentences
- "I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book."
- "The compiler of a commonplace book is on his own; he can put in anything that appeals to him: aphorisms, poems, parts of poems, newspaper clippings, song lyrics, bits of humor, overheard conversations—anything that has struck him as exciting, that he has found stimulating, odd or amusing."
- "But the other kind of commonplace book was different. Its goal was to gather a collection of the wisest statements, usually of the ancients, for future meditation."
- "Popularized in a previous period of information overload, the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the commonplace book was more than a diary or journal of personal reflections. It was a learning tool that the educated class used to understand a rapidly changing world and their place in it."