bibliomaniac

noun

Definition of bibliomaniacnext
as in bookseller
one who is keenly devoted to books an incorrigible bibliomaniac, he's already bought more books than anyone could read in a lifetime

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bibliomaniac
  1. bookseller
  2. bibliophile
  3. antiquarian
  4. bookman
Noun
  • After a seemingly quotidian afternoon in Paris, the antiquarian bookseller Tara Selter wakes up in her hotel room the next morning only to find the same day happening again.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • After an initial consultation, the Heywood Hill booksellers scour the British publishing landscape to find the 12 books that most closely align with the reader’s interests.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of bookseller
Noun
  • For many bibliophiles and librocubicularists books are truly a love language, and the holiday season is an opportune time to give the gift of reading.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Still searching for that perfect holiday season gift for the bibliophiles in your life?
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of bibliophile
Noun
  • The few copies of her books that remained reached fantastic prices on the open market (a hardback first edition of Twice Lost costs $300 today), and so people who had copies, usually antiquarians or mystery enthusiasts, described the stories to those who couldn’t find or afford them.
    Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In some quarters, preservation is thought of as an antiquarian undertaking, a sentimental allegiance to structures that have ceased to function and so have relinquished their right to exist.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of antiquarian
Noun
  • Subsequent chapters explore great bookmen of the Renaissance, from the Florentine tradesman Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Flemish illuminator Simon Bening to the English antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton — manuscript obsessives all.
    Bruce Holsinger, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • In the 1970s and ’80s, a flamboyant Texas bookman and one-time president of the ABAA named John Jenkins made money selling stolen and forged items to libraries and collectors.
    Travis McDade, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
Definition of bookman
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