Dictionary

record book en · NOUN

Etymology

From record + book.

Meanings

1. (also, idiomatic) A book which lists record-breaking achievements.
2. A book in which a record is kept of events, similar to a logbook.
   • To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books mingled with old damp cement and stale urine. 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

Forms

Relateds

good books · for the book · for the books

Translations (4)

de Rekordbuch (book listing achievements) · pl księga rekordów (book listing achievements) · nb rekordbok (book listing achievements) · nn rekordbok (book listing achievements)