Cunabula: Definition and part of speech

Cunabula

  1. n. pl. The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
  2. n. pl. The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

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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