Other forms: books, booked, booking
A book is a set of printed pages joined together for reading. Read a book, write a book, a book about birds.
As a verb it means to reserve: book a table, book a flight, fully booked. In football, to book a player is to show them a yellow card. The idioms are many: by the book, meaning strictly to the rules; in my book, meaning in my opinion; throw the book at somebody, meaning to punish them as severely as possible; and an open book, meaning somebody easy to read.
1nounbookPrinted pages joined together for reading.~94%
“I'm reading a really good book about a girl who sails around the world.”
2verbreserveTo reserve something in advance.~6%
“They booked the table about six weeks ahead.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 16 sentences found in the wild and placed 16 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
book is a printed work, or a reserving.
Old English boc is Germanic and was long thought to come from the beech tree, on which runes were supposedly carved. That link is disputed and probably wrong, but the words are genuinely close enough that it has never quite gone away.
Middle English
bok
English, today
book
From Middle English bok. From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic bōk, from Proto-Germanic bōks. Bookmaker sense by a clipping of. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA