bibliophile
noun
1 bibliophile
Someone who loves (and usually collects) books.
synonyms: book lover, booklover.
Roget 492:
scholar,
connoisseur,
savant,
pundit,
schoolman†,
professor,
graduate,
wrangler;
academician,
academist†;
master of arts,
doctor,
licentitate,
gownsman;
philosopher,
master of math;
scientist,
clerk;
sophist,
sophister†;
linguist;
glossolinguist,
philologist;
philologer†;
lexicographer,
glossographer;
grammarian;
litterateur [Fr.],
literati,
dilettanti,
illuminati,
cogniscenti [It];
fellow,
Hebraist,
lexicologist,
mullah,
munshi†,
Sanskritish;
sinologist,
sinologue†;
Mezzofanti†,
admirable Crichton,
Mecaenas.
bookworm,
helluo librorum [Lat.];
bibliophile,
bibliomaniac†;
bluestocking,
bas-bleu [Fr.];
bigwig,
learned Theban,
don;
Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.],
Artium Magister [Lat.].
learned man,
literary man;
homo multarum literarum [Lat.];
man of learning,
man of letters,
man of education,
man of genius.
antiquarian,
antiquary;
archaeologist.
sage
etc.
(wise man)
500.
pedant,
doctrinaire;
pedagogue,
Dr.
Pangloss;
pantologist†,
criminologist.
schoolboy
etc.
(learner)
541.
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Dutch: boekenliefhebber, bibliofiel
Polish: bibliofil, biblioman
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