Bible

1. n. A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.
2. n. A book.
3. n. The Book by way of eminence, — that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; — sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James’s Bible; Douay Bible; Luther’s Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.
4. n. A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.