Bookmaker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that edits, prints, publishes, or binds books.
  • n. One who accepts and pays off bets, as on a horserace. Also called bookie.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who prints or binds books
  • n. A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
  • n. A betting man who “makes a book.” See To make a book, under Book, n.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A printer and binder of books.
  • n. One who writes and publishes books; especially, a mere compiler.
  • n. One who makes a book (see book, n., 9) on a race or other doubtful event; a professional betting man. See extract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books
  • n. a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    maker    shaper    gambler   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    book   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    compiler   
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