bibliography - definition and synonyms

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Noun (1)bibliographies

a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)Type of list, listing

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Bib′li·og′ra·phy (bĭb′lĭ-ŏg′rȧ-fy̆) noun; pl. Bibliographies (…).

Origin: Gr. βιβλιογραφία: cf. F. bibliographie.

1. a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

2. a list of books or other printed works having some common theme, such as topic, period, author, or publisher.

3. a list of the published (and sometimes unpublished) sources of information referred to in a scholarly discourse or other text, or used as reference materials for its preparation.

4. the branch of library science dealing with the history and classification of books and other published materials.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors