book learning

noun

Roget 593: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule^†; tract, tractate^†; livret^†; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion^†, circular, publication; chap book.    part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.    paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet^†; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream.    [subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.    folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo^†, sextodecimo^†, octodecimo^†.    encyclopedia; encompilation^†.    [collection of books] library, bibliotheca^†.    press etc. (publication) 531.    [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595.    [person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.], essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker^†, diaskeaust^†, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor^†; playwright etc. 599; poet etc. 597.    bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^†, bibliopolist^†; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.    knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning etc. (knowledge) 490.    ... show more

Roget 490: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence^†; acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity^†, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation etc. (judgment) 480; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics^†.    light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression etc. (idea) 453; discovery etc. 480.1. system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy^†; acroama^†; theory, aetiology^†, etiology; circle of the sciences; pandect^†, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school etc. (system of opinions) 484.    tree of knowledge; republic of letters etc. (language) 560.    erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania^†, bibliolatry^†; information, general information; store of knowledge &c.; education etc. (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture^†, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge etc. (skill) 698; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments etc. (beginning) 66.    deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge^†, acroamatic knowledge^†, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology^†.    march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad.    [person who knows much] scholar etc. 492.    ... show more

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