library card

noun

1. a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.

Word History and Origins

Origin of library card¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

If that comes to pass, you might as well replace your library card with a credit card.

From Time

Simply search for your library in the app or on the OverDrive website and plug in your library card info and you’ll be set.

From Popular-Science

In Virginia, though, it seems as if all it takes to embarrass the opposing campaign is a working library card.

From The Daily Beast

You Think That's Bad doesn't get written with a library card.

From The Daily Beast

Then a "Library Card," four inches by two-and-a-half inches, is provided for each scholar on the first of each month.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes there is so much red tape prerequisite to obtaining a library card that a bashful man does not dare to make the attempt.

From Project Gutenberg

She had a library card and brought books which he suggested.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps this buyer has no library card, but at the eleventh hour has thought of the library as a last resource.

From Project Gutenberg

It took three days of this for him to arrive at his strategy for getting his own library card, and the plan worked flawlessly.

From Project Gutenberg