Bookmaker: Definition and part of speech

Bookmaker

  1. n. A betting man who “makes a book.” See To make a book, under Book, n.
  2. n. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

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.

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