circulating library

1. 1.

   library that provides books for use outside the building

   Synonymslending library

   Broaderlibrary

Questions about circulating library

What does circulating library mean?

circulating library means "library that provides books for use outside the building".

What is another word for circulating library?

Close synonyms include lending library. 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 circulating library a common word?

circulating library 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.