library

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LI'BRARY, noun [Latin librarium, libraria, from liber, a book.] 1. A collection of books belonging to a private person, or to a public institution or a company. 2. An edifice or an apartment for holding a collection of books.
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