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BIBLIOPHILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bibliophile mean?
• BIBLIOPHILE (noun)
The noun BIBLIOPHILE has 1 sense:
1. someone who loves (and usually collects) books
Familiarity information: BIBLIOPHILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who loves (and usually collects) books
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bibliophile; book lover; booklover
Hypernyms ("bibliophile" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
Derivation:
bibliophilic (of or relating to bibliophiles)
Context examples
I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, The Origin of Tree Worship, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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