lending library

1. 1.

   library that provides books for use outside the building

   Synonymscirculating library

   Broaderlibrary

Questions about lending library

What does lending library mean?

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

What is another word for lending library?

Close synonyms include circulating 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 lending library a common word?

lending 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.