Definition of bookmark in English:

bookmark

noun

1A strip of leather, card, or other material, used to mark one's place in a book.
- ‘I like making bookmarks, note cards and gift tags.’
- ‘She stared at the shut door for a moment, before putting the supermarket receipt she used as a bookmark in to mark her place and carefully closing the book.’
- ‘I put my bookmark in the book and placed it in the pocket in front of me.’
- ‘He put his bookmark in his book, and bent to pick his other fallen books off of the ground.’
- ‘These contain bookmarks and colouring books and are intended to promote and boost children's love for reading.’
- ‘I dug out the book, which has a bookmark about half-way through that marks the point where I finally threw it against the wall in frustration.’
- ‘And then, almost as if on cue, the doorbell rang, and hastily placed her bookmark in the book and jumped up to answer the door.’
- ‘I like to choose the right bookmark for the book I'm reading, and I like to laminate the ones I use a lot.’
- ‘The bookmark was an 8 ½ inch leather strip with small lead weights at each end.’
- ‘And most importantly, who had an opportunity to put the bookmark into my book?’
- ‘She put a bookmark in her book and shut it.’
- ‘In the vain hope that if she ignored him, he might go away, she took out her book again, opening it to where her bookmark had marked her spot.’
- ‘I asked and sat up, putting my bookmark in the book and setting it down on my bedside table.’
- ‘I use a bookmark and make any notes at the back of the book.’
- ‘Two separate competitions were held, to design a bookmark and to write a review of one's favourite book.’
- ‘Awareness material including bookmarks, car stickers and posters will be distributed.’
- ‘She placed the bookmark in her book, set it down on the chair beside her, stood, squared her shoulders and marched into the house.’
- ‘Sighing, she unwillingly placed her bookmark in the book, and went to open the door for Chris.’
- ‘It contains books, journals, little cards and bookmarks.’
- ‘I mumbled, putting the bookmark in my book, sitting up and picking up the phone.’
1. 1.1 A record of the address of a website, file, or other data made to enable quick access in future.
  ‘Now a new, free, service aims to provide users with personal website directories enabling them to access their bookmarks from any PC in the world.’
  ‘Same site, same people, new host, new address so update those bookmarks!’
  ‘That means Web page bookmarks, stock lists, and weather settings have to be stored on the PC rather than the player.’
  ‘All basic PDF functions are possible, including scrolling, paging, text searches, bookmarks and page rotation.’
  ‘They will cost you time, though, because you access your bookmarks via an Internet connection.’

verb

[with object]

Record the address of (a website, file, etc.) to enable quick access in future.
‘fans will want to bookmark this site’
- ‘Perhaps you could try bookmarking the login page in case that stops working again.’
- ‘Web pages that users bookmarked did not match the most-popular sites visited as a whole from the group.’
- ‘While the new location is better, the previous URL will have been bookmarked by thousands of people.’
- ‘But as we've already explored, bookmarking pages within an application is generally discouraged.’
- ‘Entry pages generally show that the visitor may have bookmarked your site on that page, probably because of its valuable content.’