bibliophile

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bib=li=o=phile

CIDE DICTIONARY

bibliophile, n. [Gr. book + to love: cf. F. bibliophile.].

 A lover of books.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bibliophile, n. (also bibliophil) a person who collects or is fond of books.

Derivative

bibliophilic adj. bibliophily n.

Etymology

F bibliophile (as BIBLIO-, -PHILE)

THESAURUS

bibliophile

bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliolatrist, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophilist, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, cataloger, chief librarian, college editor, copy editor, curator, dictionary editor, editor, editor-in-chief, executive editor, greasy grind, grind, juvenile editor, librarian, library director, managing editor, permissions editor, philobiblist, printer, production editor, publisher, reference editor, reference librarian, textbook editor, trade editor

ROGET THESAURUS

bibliophile

Scholar

N 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, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.