BOOKED • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Booked

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bʊkt/ Listen

verb

Book v. t. (past & past part. booked; pres. part. booking)

1.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. "Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds."

2.

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve (2); also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.

3.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. (Colloq.) "Here I am booked for three days more in Paris."

4.

To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); performed by police.

adjective

Booked adj.

1.

Registered.

2.

On the way; destined. (Colloq.)

3.

Reserved in advance; held for future use. See reserve2.

See images of 'Booked'

Etymology of 'Booked'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Booked" Quotes from Famous Books

... up. Two doors opened, and from one of them, William. They flew to him. He handed parcels to them cheerily, and immediately began to explain that this great train had stopped for HIS sake at such a small station as Sethley Bridge: it was not booked to stop. ...

— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

... 1924.—It appears that Olympia was already booked for November for The Daily Mail's Ideal Pyjama Exhibition, and Mr. C. B. COCHRAN has to-day issued a communique to the Press Association to the effect that the contest will be held definitely in Sark (Channel Islands) on December ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 15, 1920 • Various

... this day. I've been watchin' over his meals like a mother with a delicate baby these three weeks back; but what hope 'ud I have with Christmas comin' in the way? He got away on me at Christmas dinner, an' what he didn't ate in the way of turkey an puddin' wouldn't be worth mentioning—an' him booked to ride to-day! 'Plenty' always did be his motter, an' he lives up to it. So he's pounds overweight, ...

— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... prices if he chose to buy—the price of 'Ercles' (the big brown) being fixed at fifty, inclusive of hire at the end of the first month, and gradually rising according to the length of time he kept him beyond that; while, 'Multum in Parvo,' the resolute chestnut, was booked at thirty, with the right of buying at five more, a contingency that Buckram little expected. He, we may add, had got him for ten, and dear he thought him when he ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... cut deep!" And, as I have said, they did cut deep, for at the end one might go to New York for about $18. Now this $18 went in a lump to the railroad east of Chicago. Consequently the passengers were carried over 2000 miles for nothing. Frequently during two days men were booked to Chicago or Kansas City from San Francisco or Los Angeles for $1. Two ...

— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts

Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com