bookplate noun 1verb 1forms 3 noun1 •A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate. — 2004 verb1 •To affix a bookplate to (a book). formsbookplated · bookplating · bookplates
