Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A lover of books; a bibliophile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A lover of books.

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  • noun A lover of books; a bibliophile.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • After dinner the trio duly adjourned to the library as had been planned, and the volumes were brought forth by Louis with the zest of a bibliophilist.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • It disturbed my bibliophilist labors, and gave a twang of musty nausea even to the sweet scent of old binding-leather.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

  • After dinner the trio duly adjourned to the library as had been planned, and the volumes were brought forth by Louis with the zest of a bibliophilist.

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

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