Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lover of books.
- noun A collector of books.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lover of books. Sometimes written bibliophil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lover of books.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who loves
books . - noun One who obsessively collects
books , not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who loves (and usually collects) books
Etymologies
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Examples
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Reading Spellwright as a bibliophile is a real treat, and the focus on language, reading, writing and understanding as a wizardly trait is something that seems somewhat new, and honestly, something long overdue in the fantasy realm.
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A bibliophile from a young age she has always had an affinity for the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
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ROMANO: I didn't even know the word bibliophile before this.
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Coppins, however, hearing himself described as a bibliophile, and surmising that a bibliophile must be a person of some importance, permitted himself the luxury of remarking that he was a bibliophile -- a forty-third-degree bibliophile.
Knowledge is Power 1916
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In fact, what this episode demonstrates is that everyone should read a little Marx, particularly Rob Port, the self-described "bibliophile" who snapped the picture of the White House library during a tour in order to blog his cheap shot.
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Some one has said that "to call a bibliophile a bibliomaniac is to conduct
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Henry H. Harper
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a Jewish historian and scholar — the kind of bibliophile his father Isaac was.
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These may be tough times, but never have they been so filled with bargains for the bibliophile.
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For the bibliophile there are essays on small presses, blogs, ‘the book,’ poetry and fiction, along with the regular roundup of book reviews.
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These may be tough times, but never have they been so filled with bargains for the bibliophile.
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In ‘The Book Collector’ (1841), the French writer and librarian Charles Nodier distinguished between ‘bibliophiles’, who know ‘how to select books’, and ‘bibliomaniacs’, who ‘hoard and amass them’.
sionnach commented on the word bibliophile
Someone who loves books
December 22, 2010
1538619586 commented on the word bibliophile
"someone who abuses new books"
December 22, 2010
MaryW commented on the word bibliophile
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