card catalogue

Questions about card catalogue

What does card catalogue mean?

card catalogue means "a library catalog in which each publication is described on a separate file card". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for card catalogue?

Close synonyms include card catalog, card index, card catalog. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is card catalogue a common word?

card catalogue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.