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 

• BIBLIOPHILE (noun)

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)