bibliophage
Americannoun
Usage
What does bibliophage mean? A bibliophage is a person who reads all the time; a bookworm.Bibliophage is a very rarely used word, unlike the commonly used bookworm. But with their extensive vocabularies, bibliophages probably know it.Example: Michelle is a real bibliophage—she spends every second of her free time reading books.
Other Word Forms
- bibliophagic adjective
- bibliophagous adjective
Etymology
Origin of bibliophage
Example Sentences
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Bibliophage, or bibliophagist, a book-eater, or devourer of books.
From Project Gutenberg
Nor is there anything to allay the curiosity thus excited in finding that the French, in the all-comprehensive spirit of their classification and nomenclature, include the book-eater with the decorous title Bibliophage, seeing that in so gossiping a work as Peignot's Dictionnaire de Bibliologie, all that is communicated under this department is, "Bibliophage signifie celui qui mange des livres."
From Project Gutenberg
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