bookend
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Is bookend a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of bookend?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.Examples: "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 […]"figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive, often figurative) To come before and after, or at both sides of.Examples: "Side one has good songs bookended by better songs."; "The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen."; "Taking the 18th-century tale at a steady, relentless drumbeat, and with a seductively cool detachment, Kubrick guides you through his hero’s rise and fall, bookended by two sensational duelling scenes."Synonyms: flankfigurativelyoftentransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary