reference works

1. Books and other works that contain useful facts and information, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and bibliographies.

Example Sentences

His walls are lined with shelves of well-thumbed books, from his childhood comic collection to reference works on art and anthropology, Victoriana and zoology.

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In many sections of the Washington area, the almost biblical quantities of rain might have caused many residents to look through reference works to consult instructions for constructing an ark.

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Its storage disks were filled with digitized reference works, Wikipedia entries and electronic books.

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While discussing some classic reference works, the polymath Guy Davenport extolled the detail and clarity of the Century’s engraved, thumbnail-sized illustrations.

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The cash seized would have financed about 2 percent of the film, which, reference works say, cost a little more than $1 million.

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