Library

//ˈlaɪ.bɹə.ɹi//

Synonyms for "library" (141 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (29)

Strong matches (42)

Related word relations

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16 relation types

More general

11 entries

accumulation aggregation assemblage building collection deposit depositary depository edifice repository room

Antonyms

4 entries

book book store bookstore store

Synonyms

1 entries

bookhouse

at location

8 entries

canada college decent sized town downtown house librarian school town

capable of

6 entries

allow books to borrowed fine borrower include books and music lend books to lend books to public stock many books

causes desire

1 entries

read

coordinate

3 entries

bookshop bookstore framework

defined as

1 entries

cornerstone of educational institution

derived

53 entries

Borgesian library Carnegie library antilibrary circulating library cyberlibrary cybrary diaper library digital library dynamic-link library e-library ebrary film library free library interlibrary lending library librametry

Showing 16 of 53 words.

has a

9 entries

books books for loan librarian literature lots of books many books and magazines many shelves rules about being quiet thousands of books

has context

3 entries

card games computer science programming

has property

1 entries

dark

is a

20 entries

archive big storage of information building collection collection display setting collection of documents company department depository fixed indoor space holding organization place place of wonder place opens and closes product display organization quiet place

Showing 16 of 20 words.

part of

1 entries

house

related to

111 entries

all books book book building book collection book depository book depot book filled book house book lender book place book rental book repository book room book shelves book storage book store

Showing 16 of 111 words.

used for

28 entries

borrow books borrow fiction novel borrowing books discovering discovering facts do research finding books to read finding information gathering information gathering place holding many books lending books lendings books obtain and read books organizing knowlege public good

Showing 16 of 28 words.

Translations

336 translations across 150 languages.

Afrikaans

2 entries

biblioteek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
boekery noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Albanian

3 entries

bibliotekë noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliotekë noun (collection of books)
librari noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Amharic

1 entries

ቤተ መጻሕፍት noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

βιβλιοθήκη noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
βιβλιοθήκη noun (collection of books)

Arabic

3 entries

مكتبة noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
مكتبة noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
مَكْتَبَة noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Armenian

3 entries

գրադարան noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
գրադարան noun (collection of books)
գրադարան noun (collection of records)

Assamese

1 entries

পুথিভঁৰাল noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

1 entries

ܒܹܝܬ ܐܲܪ̈ܟܹܐ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Asturian

1 entries

biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Avar

1 entries

тӏахьалхана noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

kitabxana noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Baluchi

1 entries

کتاب جاہ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Bashkir

1 entries

китапхана noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Basque

1 entries

liburutegi noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Belarusian

1 entries

бібліятэ́ка noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Bengali

2 entries

গ্রন্থাগার noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
লাইব্রেরি noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Bulgarian

4 entries

архив noun (collection of records)
библиоте́ка noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
библиотека noun (collection of books)
библиотека noun (collection of subprograms)

Burmese

1 entries

စာကြည့်တိုက် noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries

книжніця noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Catalan

4 entries

biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteca noun (collection of books)
biblioteca noun (collection of subprograms)
llibreria noun (collection of subprograms)

Central Atlas Tamazight

1 entries

ⵜⴰⵙⴷⵍⵉⵙⵜ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Central Dusun

1 entries

librari noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Chechen

1 entries

библиотека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Cherokee

2 entries

ᎪᏪᎵ ᏕᎦᏅ ᏗᎪᎵᏰᏗ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ᏧᏂᎪᎵᏰᏗᎢ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Chinese

2 entries

фуфон noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
圖書館 /图书馆 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

圖書館 /图书馆 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

圕 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
圖書館 /图书馆 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
庫 /库 noun (collection of subprograms)
收藏 noun (collection of books)

Chuvash

2 entries

библиотека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
вулавӑш noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Cornish

2 entries

leverva noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
lyverva noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Czech

4 entries

fonotéka noun (collection of records)
knihovna noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
knihovna noun (collection of books)
knihovna noun (collection of subprograms)

Danish

3 entries

bibliotek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliotek noun (collection of books)
bibliotek noun (collection of subprograms)

Dari

1 entries

کِتَابْخَانَه noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Dhivehi

1 entries

ކުތުބުޚާނާ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Dutch

4 entries

archief noun (collection of records)
bibliotheek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliotheek noun (collection of books)
boekenkast noun (collection of books)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries

圖書館 /图书馆 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Erzya

2 entries

библиотека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ловномакудо noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Esperanto

4 entries

arkivo noun (collection of records)
arĥivo noun (collection of records)
biblioteko noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteko noun (collection of books)

Estonian

1 entries

raamatukogu noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Fala

1 entries

biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Faroese

3 entries

bókasavn noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bókasavn noun (collection of books)
bókasavn noun (collection of subprograms)

Finnish

4 entries

kirjasto noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
kirjasto noun (collection of books)
kirjasto noun (collection of DNA material)
kirjasto noun (deck or draw pile)

French

4 entries

bibliothèque noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliothèque noun (collection of books)
bibliothèque noun (collection of subprograms)
bibliothèque noun (collection of DNA material)

Galician

1 entries

biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Georgian

1 entries

ბიბლიოთეკა noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

German

4 entries

Archiv noun (collection of records)
Bibliothek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
Bibliothek noun (collection of books)
Bibliothek noun (collection of subprograms)

Greek

4 entries

βιβλιοθήκη noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
βιβλιοθήκη noun (collection of books)
βιβλιοθήκη noun (collection of subprograms)
δισκοθήκη noun (collection of records)

Gujarati

1 entries

પુસ્તકાલય noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries

圖書館 /图书馆 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Hausa

1 entries

laburare noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Hebrew

4 entries

ספרייה \ סִפְרִיָּה noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ספרייה \ סִפְרִיָּה noun (collection of books)
ספרייה \ סִפְרִיָּה noun (collection of records)
ספרייה \ סִפְרִיָּה noun (collection of subprograms)

Hindi

2 entries

पुस्तकालय noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
लाइब्रेरी noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Hungarian

3 entries

könyvtár noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
könyvtár noun (collection of books)
programkönyvtár noun (collection of subprograms)

Iban

1 entries

librari noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Icelandic

4 entries

bókahús noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bókasafn noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bókhlaða noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
forritasafn noun (collection of subprograms)

Ido

1 entries

biblioteko noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Indonesian

4 entries

bibliotek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
khizanatulkitab noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
perpustakaan noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
perpustakaan noun (collection of books)

Ingrian

2 entries

bibliotekka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
kirjasikko noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Iranian Persian

1 entries

کِتابْخانِه noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Irish

3 entries

leabharlann noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
leabharlann noun (collection of books)
leabharlann noun (collection of subprograms)

Italian

4 entries

archivio noun (collection of records)
banca dati noun (collection of records)
biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteca noun (collection of DNA material)

Japanese

4 entries

ライブラリー noun (collection of subprograms)
ライブラリー noun (deck or draw pile)
双書 noun (collection of books)
叢書 noun (collection of books)

Javanese

3 entries

bibliotik noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
kapustakan noun (collection of books)
pabukon noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Kannada

1 entries

ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Kazakh

2 entries

дерекхана noun (collection of records)
кітапхана noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Khmer

1 entries

បណ្ណាល័យ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Komi-Zyrian

1 entries

лыддьысянін noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Korean

4 entries

도서관 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
라이브러리 noun (collection of subprograms)
서고 noun (deck or draw pile)
장서 noun (collection of books)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

китепкана noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Lao

2 entries

ຫ້ອງສະມຸດ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ຫໍສະໝຸດ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Latin

3 entries

bibliothēca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
librārium noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
librārium noun (collection of books)

Latvian

2 entries

bibliotēka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliotēka noun (collection of books)

Lithuanian

2 entries

biblioteka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteka noun (collection of books)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

biblioteka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Bibliothéik noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Macedonian

3 entries

библио́тека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
библио́тека noun (collection of books)
библио́тека noun (collection of subprograms)

Malay

4 entries

koleksi noun (collection of records)
kutubkhanah noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
perpustakaan noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
perpustakaan noun (collection of books)

Malayalam

1 entries

ഗ്രന്ഥശാല noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Maltese

1 entries

librerija noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Manx

3 entries

lioar-hasht noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
lioarlan noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
thie lioaragh noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Marathi

1 entries

ग्रंथालय noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Moksha

1 entries

библиотека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Mongolian

2 entries

номын сан noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ᠨᠣᠮ ᠤᠨ ᠰᠠᠩ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Māori

1 entries

whare pukapuka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Nahuatl

1 entries

āmoxcalli noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Navajo

1 entries

naaltsoos bá hooghan noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Nepali

1 entries

पुस्तकालय noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Newar

1 entries

सफूधुकू noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Norman

2 entries

bibliothèque noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliothèque noun (collection of books)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

pirtûkxane noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Northern Sami

2 entries

girjerádju noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
girjerádju noun (collection of books)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

bibliotek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

bibliotek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Occitan

1 entries

bibliotèca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Odia

2 entries

ପାଠାଗାର noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ଲାଇବ୍ରେରୀ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Old English

2 entries

bōchord noun (collection of books)
bōchūs noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

كتبخانه noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Pa'O

1 entries

ထွားလိတ်လမ်း noun (collection of subprograms)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

библиотека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Pashto

3 entries

کتابتون noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
کتابخانه noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
کتابځی noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Polish

4 entries

biblioteczka noun (collection of books)
biblioteka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteka noun (collection of books)
biblioteka noun (collection of subprograms)

Portuguese

4 entries

arquivo noun (collection of records)
biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteca noun (collection of books)
biblioteca noun (collection of subprograms)

Punjabi

4 entries

پستکالا noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ਕਿਤਾਬ-ਘਰ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ਪੁਸਤਕਾਲਾ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ਲਾਇਬ੍ਰੇਰੀ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Quechua

2 entries

kamukuska noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ñawiriy wasi noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Romanian

2 entries

bibliotecă noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliotecă noun (collection of books)

Romansch

1 entries

biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Russian

4 entries

библиоте́ка noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
библиоте́ка noun (collection of books)
библиоте́ка noun (collection of subprograms)
библиоте́ка noun (deck or draw pile)

Sanskrit

1 entries

पुस्तकालय noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Scots

4 entries

leebrary noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
leebrary noun (collection of books)
leebrary noun (collection of records)
leebrary noun (collection of subprograms)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

leabharlann noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
leabharlann noun (collection of books)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

bibliotéka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliotéka noun (collection of books)
knjížnica noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
knjížnica noun (collection of books)

Shan

1 entries

ႁူင်းလူလိၵ်ႈ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Sinhalese

1 entries

පුස්තකාලය noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Skolt Sami

1 entries

ǩeʹrjjpõrtt noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Slovak

1 entries

knižnica noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Slovene

1 entries

knjižnica noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Somali

1 entries

maktabad noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Spanish

4 entries

biblioteca noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteca noun (collection of books)
biblioteca noun (collection of subprograms)
biblioteca noun (collection of DNA material)

Sundanese

1 entries

ᮕᮨᮁᮕᮥᮞ᮪ᮒᮊᮃᮔ᮪ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Swahili

4 entries

maktaba noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
maktaba noun (collection of books)
maktaba noun (collection of records)
maktaba noun (collection of subprograms)

Swedish

4 entries

arkiv noun (collection of records)
bibliotek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bibliotek noun (collection of books)
bibliotek noun (collection of subprograms)

Tagalog

3 entries

aklatan noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
aklatan noun (collection of books)
silid-aklatan noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tajik

1 entries

китобхона noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tamil

1 entries

நூலகம் noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tashelhit

1 entries

tasarrat noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tatar

1 entries

китапханә noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Telugu

1 entries

గ్రంథాలయము noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Thai

3 entries

คลังสมอง noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
หอสมุด noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
ห้องสมุด noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tibetan

2 entries

དཔེ་མཛོད noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

haus buk noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tongan

1 entries

laipeli noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Tswana

1 entries

laeborari noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Turkish

1 entries

kütüphane noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Turkmen

1 entries

kitaphana noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Udmurt

4 entries

библиотека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
книгакорка noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
книгакуа noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
лыдӟиськонни noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Ukrainian

4 entries

бібліоте́ка noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
бібліоте́ка noun (collection of books)
бібліоте́ка noun (collection of records)
бібліоте́ка noun (collection of subprograms)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

biblioteka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Urdu

2 entries

لائِبْریری noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
کُتُب خانَہ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Uyghur

2 entries

كۇتۇپخانا noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
كۈتۈپخانا noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Uzbek

2 entries

biblioteka noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
kutubxona noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Vietnamese

2 entries

thư viện noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
thư viện noun (collection of subprograms)

Volapük

2 entries

bukem noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
bukem noun (collection of books)

Walloon

1 entries

bibioteke noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Welsh

2 entries

llyfrgell noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
llyfrgell noun (collection of books)

West-Frisian

2 entries

biblioteek noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
biblioteek noun (collection of books)

Western Apache

1 entries

naltsoos dahójiiyú noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Wu Chinese

1 entries

圖書館 /图书馆 noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Yakut

2 entries

бибилэтиэкэ noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
библиотека noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Yiddish

1 entries

ביבליאָטעק noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Yoruba

2 entries

ilé-ìkàwé noun (institution which holds books, etc.)
láíbìrì noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Zhuang

1 entries

duzsuhgvanj noun (institution which holds books, etc.)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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Tomorrow, I'm going to study at the library.

Source: tatoeba (1874)

You may make use of his library.

Source: tatoeba (15811)

Every student has access to the library.

Source: tatoeba (21361)

Students have access to the library.

Source: tatoeba (21365)

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Library

Synonyms for "library" (141 found)

Closest matches (29)

Strong matches (42)

Related words (70)

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Translations

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Armenian

Assamese

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Asturian

Avar

Azerbaijani

Baluchi

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bulgarian

Burmese

Carpathian Rusyn

Catalan

Central Atlas Tamazight

Central Dusun

Chechen

Cherokee

Chinese

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Chuvash

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dari

Dhivehi

Dutch

Eastern Min Chinese

Erzya

Esperanto

Estonian

Fala

Faroese

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hakka Chinese

Hausa

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Iban

Icelandic

Ido

Indonesian

Ingrian