Meanings
plural record books
- alsoidiomaticA book which lists record-breaking achievements.
- A book in which a record is kept of events, similar to a logbook.
1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
German Rekordbuch
- Rekordbuchbook listing achievements
Norwegian Bokmål rekordbok
- rekordbokbook listing achievements
Polish księga rekordów
- księga rekordówbook listing achievements
Cite this entry
record book. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/record%20book
“record book.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/record%20book. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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