SCRAPBOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrapbook mean? 

• SCRAPBOOK (noun)
  The noun SCRAPBOOK has 1 sense:

1. an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted

  Familiarity information: SCRAPBOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRAPBOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scrapbook" is a kind of...):

album (a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc)

 Context examples 

So spoke Sherlock Holmes and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he was arranging and indexing some of his recent material.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)