Definitions for bookends

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bookends book·end

Spelling: [boo k-end]

IPA: /ˈbʊkˌɛnd/

Bookends is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in bookends (bdeknoos).

Definitions for bookends

noun

1. a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
2. one of two things occurring or located at either end of something else:
3. a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
4. one of two things occurring or located at either end of something else:

verb (used with object)

1. to occur or be located at the beginning and end of:
2. to occur or be located at the beginning and end of:

Origin of bookends

First recorded in 1905-10; book + end¹

Examples for bookends

Farm kids are educated early about the events that bookend life.

These bookend moments unexpectedly gave me the code to the deeper source of my grief over the death of Olivia Cull.

But 9/11 has defined our stubbornly nameless decade, along with the bookend election of Barack Obama.

In that way, this return to The War Room feels like the bookend to the political dynamic it helped set in motion.

And it became a sort of bookend to my first experience with him.

Before I could follow, Nan had dropped the bookend and flung herself into my arms.

These weeks, and especially fast days that bookend them, are about remembering the experience of loss.

Farm kids are educated early about the events that bookend life.

But 9/11 has defined our stubbornly nameless decade, along with the bookend election of Barack Obama.

These weeks, and especially fast days that bookend them, are about remembering the experience of loss.

And it became a sort of bookend to my first experience with him.

These bookend moments unexpectedly gave me the code to the deeper source of my grief over the death of Olivia Cull.

Before I could follow, Nan had dropped the bookend and flung herself into my arms.

In that way, this return to The War Room feels like the bookend to the political dynamic it helped set in motion.