English

Alternative forms

• commonplace-book
• commonplace (noun)

Noun

commonplace book ‎(plural commonplace books)

1. A personal notebook or journal in which memorabilia, quotations etc were written.
   • 1910, Samuel Butler|, Unconscious Memory, ch. 2:

     I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book.