COMMONPLACE BOOK • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Commonplace book

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈɑmənplˌeɪs bʊk/ Listen

noun

Commonplace n.

An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. "Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace."

Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

See images of 'Commonplace book'

Etymology of 'Commonplace book'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Commonplace book" Quotes from Famous Books

... be hard to name a better commonplace book for summer lawns. . . . The lover of poetry, the lover of gardening, and the lover of quaint, out-of-the-way knowledge will each find something to please him. . . . It is a delightful example of gardening ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... Balliol College, Oxford, there is a manuscript which, for want of a better name, I may call a Commonplace Book of an English gentleman who lived in the beginning of the sixteenth century. Its contents display, beyond any other single volume which I have met with, the mental furniture of an average-educated man of ...

— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... Museum consist of one hundred and twenty-nine[51] volumes, including three of ballads. The manuscript pieces are contained in thirty-six folios; the printed pieces in sixty-three folios, twenty-one quartos, and nine octavos. Among the more important manuscripts are Bagford's Commonplace Book; his Book of Accounts; his Account of Public and Private Libraries; Collections in reference to Printing; Names of old English Printers, with lists of the works which passed through their hands; an Account of ...

— English Book Collectors • William Younger Fletcher

... putting these things down, if not for publication, then in some diary or commonplace book, that we can realise how far our normal life is, even now and here, interpenetrated by another ...

— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates

... years ago, and passed into the possession of an American collector for L17 10s.; a second was secured, also at an auction, for L6 by Mr. Murray, so that the manuscript is only now wanting two leaves. The very interesting commonplace book of Robert Burns was given by Mr. Murray's grandfather to J. G. Lockhart, who left it to his son-in-law, Mr. Hope-Scott, from whom it again passed into the possession of the late Mr. John Murray. The manuscript 'Journal' of Thomas ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... "Heroes and Hero Worship," but on the evening of "Old Settlers' Day," to my surprise, I found it difficult to go on. Its sonorous sentences and exaltation of the man who "can" suddenly ceased to be convincing. I had already written down in my commonplace book a resolution to give at least twenty-five copies of this book each year to noble young people of my acquaintance. It is perhaps fitting in this chapter that the very first Christmas we spent at Hull-House, ...

— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams