bookmark
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Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A narrow strip of card, cloth or leather that you leave between the pages of a book to show where you stopped reading.
I always use a bookmark instead of folding the corner down.
She slipped a bookmark between the pages and closed the book.
My bookmark fell out and now I have lost my place.
He was given a leather bookmark with a gold tassel.
Common collocations: use a bookmark · a leather bookmark · slip a bookmark between the pages · lose your bookmark · a ribbon bookmark
Part of: Books and reading, Writing, The office
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- B2
To save the address of a web page on a computer or phone so that you can open it again quickly.
Bookmark this page so you can find the recipe later.
I bookmarked the article and finished reading it on the train.
She bookmarks every website she might need for her project.
Common collocations: bookmark a page · bookmark a website · bookmark an article · bookmark it for later
Part of: Books and reading, Phone and internet, Media