as in bookseller
one who is keenly devoted to books
for bibliophiles, no electronic device could possibly give the tactile pleasure of a beautifully bound book
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Recent Examples of bibliophile
Carol's Capitol Bookstore in downtown Little Rock was a magnet for me and many other bibliophiles, a welcoming retreat that encouraged people to stay and read a while.
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Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
San Diego Public Library’s Winter Reading Challenge welcomes bibliophiles of all ages to explore literature this month.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
But instead, every new piece of intel about the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff, leaves serious bibliophiles feeling left out in the cold.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
The shop’s stock is evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction, with a wide range of authors and topics to explore—and with prices ranging anywhere from 50 cents to $5,000, there’s truly something for every bibliophile.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
San Diego Public Library’s Winter Reading Challenge welcomes bibliophiles of all ages to explore literature this month.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
But instead, every new piece of intel about the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff, leaves serious bibliophiles feeling left out in the cold.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
The shop’s stock is evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction, with a wide range of authors and topics to explore—and with prices ranging anywhere from 50 cents to $5,000, there’s truly something for every bibliophile.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bibliophile
Noun
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In Denver, a seismic event struck the bookstore scene in 2024 when the Tattered Cover, a nationally renowned independent bookseller, was sold to the Barnes & Noble chain.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
6 Mar. 2026
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But an item that rare bookseller Peter Harrington brings to the fair holds the answers to the amount of mist, the size and shape of the castle, and much of the cursed landscape in the Kurosawa adaptation of The Scottish Play.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Feb. 2026
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Martin Farquhar Tupper, a poet and an antiquarian favored by Queen Victoria, argued that Rapa Nui was the remnant of a lost continent whose people had perished.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Mac antiquarians will be pleased to know that ClamXAV, K7 AntiVirus, and Panda Dome Essential all go back more than 10 years, to Yosemite (10.10).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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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
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Once asked to describe himself, McMurtry called himself a writer, a screenwriter — and perhaps most significantly, a bookman.—
Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2021
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“Bibliophile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bibliophile. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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