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bibliography
[ bib-lee-og-ruh-fee ]
noun
- a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- a list of source materials that are used or consulted in the preparation of a work or that are referred to in the text.
- a branch of library science dealing with the history, physical description, comparison, and classification of books and other works.
bibliography
/ ˌbɪblɪəʊˈɡræfɪk; ˌbɪblɪˈɒɡrəfɪ /
noun
- a list of books or other material on a subject
- a list of sources used in the preparation of a book, thesis, etc
- a list of the works of a particular author or publisher
- the study of the history, classification, etc, of literary material
- a work on this subject
bibliography
- A list of the written sources of information on a subject. Bibliographies generally appear as a list at the end of a book or article. They may show what works the author used in writing the article or book, or they may list works that a reader might find useful.
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Derived Forms
- ˌbiblioˈgraphically, adverb
- ˌbibliˈographer, noun
- bibliographic, adjective
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Other Words From
- bib·li·o·graph·ic [bib-lee-, uh, -, graf, -ik], bibli·o·graphi·cal adjective
- bibli·o·graphi·cal·ly adverb
- mini·bibli·ogra·phy noun plural minibibliographies
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bibliography1
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Example Sentences
Lop off the endnotes and bibliography, and The Measure of Manhattan is barely 300 pages.
Tyler does not provide us with a bibliography, although his extensive notes include many books on Israel and its neighbors.
For full bibliography (to 1904) see Ulysse Chevalier, Rpertoire des sources hist.
Punctuation has been normalized for the stage directions and the play listings in the Bibliography.
Within six months, if you're not sandbagged or jailed on fake libel suits, you'll have a unique bibliography of swindles.
There is a very inadequate bibliography in the Introduction.
His ample bibliography leaves no point necessary for elucidation untouched.
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