BOOK BINDING
Dictionary entry overview: What does book binding mean?
• BOOK BINDING (noun)
The noun BOOK BINDING has 1 sense:
1. the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
Familiarity information: BOOK BINDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BOOK BINDING (noun)
Meaning:
The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
book binding; binding; cover; back
Context example:
the book had a leather binding
Hypernyms ("book binding" is a kind of...):
protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "book binding"):
half binding (book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another)
three-quarter binding (the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover)
Holonyms ("book binding" is a part of...):
book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)