Borgesian library en · NOUN
Etymology
After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).
Meanings
- A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borgesian libraries | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
wikipedia: The Library of Babel · wikipedia: Jorge Luis Borges