Word Study
librarian
CIDE DICTIONARY
librarian, n. [See Library.].
- One who has the care or charge of a library. [1913 Webster]
- One who copies manuscript books. Broome. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
librarian, n. a person in charge of, or an assistant in, a library.
Derivative
librarianship n.
Etymology
L librarius: see LIBRARY
THESAURUS
librarian
MC, accountant, amanuensis, archivist, attorney, bailiff, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, bookkeeper, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, butler, cataloger, chief librarian, clerk, college editor, copy editor, croupier, curator, custodian, dictionary editor, documentalist, editor, editor-in-chief, emcee, engraver, executive editor, factor, filing clerk, guardian, housekeeper, juvenile editor, landreeve, library director, majordomo, managing editor, marker, master of ceremonies, notary, notary public, permissions editor, philobiblist, printer, proctor, procurator, production editor, prothonotary, publisher, record clerk, recorder, recordist, reference editor, reference librarian, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, seneschal, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, textbook editor, timekeeper, trade editorROGET THESAURUS
librarian
Book
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, 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, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.For further exploring for "librarian" in Webster Dictionary Online