Bibliophile
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bibliophile is a noun meaning One who loves books.
Meaning
One who loves books.
More Meanings
- One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
- (rare) One who loves the Bible.
Example Sentences
I dont^([sic]) consider myself a bibliophile....I just think it is God's word.
[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli .
>HA HA here we have this Bastachs Fuckhead >defending Christianity […] Your name is as wrong as the rest of your idiotic notions: you're not a bibliophile, you're a bibliophobe.
A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.
Word Forms
- bibliophiles
- bibliophil
Synonyms for bibliophile
Depending on context, synonyms include booklover.
Antonyms for bibliophile
Common opposites include bibliophobe.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include booklover, bookaholic, bookworm, bookdealer, bibliomancer, bookist.
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