Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.
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- noun A person who
collects match -related items, likematchbox labels, matchboxes,matchbooks , or matchbook covers.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[phil(o)– + Latin lūmen, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots + –ist.]
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From phil- (“love of”) + Latin lumen ("light") + -ist.
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Examples
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Consuetude is an established custom, while a phillumenist is a matchbook collector.
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Only at a spelling bee could one hear sentences like these: "Lauren gently informed her father that the exploding fist bump had fallen out of consuetude" and "The phillumenist had a hard time obtaining fire insurance on his storage unit."
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On Sunday evening I went to the Manhattan cocktail bar Pearl Box, where the matchbook-centric website Oh, What a Match! was hosting a meet-and-swap gathering of phillumenists (read: matchbook collectors).
In Which I Attend a Matchbook Collectors’ Event Paul Lukas 2026
mialuthien commented on the word phillumenist
phillumenist – a collector of match-books
July 26, 2008