- Book collection - Book depository - Book repository - Book room or building? - If you’re on the shelf here, people might have a lend of you! - Literary collection - A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not
as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.
- A building displaying works of art and other objects of value - A building housing objects of historical, artistic, and other interest - Curator’s building - Curator’s workplace - Display building - Repository - A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or
literary curiosities, or of works of art.
- Devotional exercise - Prayer beads - String of prayer beads - A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. - A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited
in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are
counted. - A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of
beautiful thoughts or of literary selections. - A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently
circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
- A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a
collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus,
Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana
of Johnson, etc.