Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old English law, one who held bookland.
- noun A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student; hence, one who is more familiar with books than with men and things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A studious man; a scholar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who held
bookland . - noun A studious or learned man; a
scholar ; astudent ; one who is more familiar with books than with men and things. - noun One who sells or publishes books; a
bookseller .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Etymologies
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I said take the word bookman, B-O-O-K-M-A-N, change one letter in it, and rearrange the result to name a famous person who wrote books.
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I said take the word bookman, B-O-O-K-M-A-N, change one letter in it, and rearrange the result to name a famous person who wrote books.
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Take the word bookman, B-O-O-K-M-A-N, change one letter in it and rearrange the result to name a famous person who wrote books.
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Take the word bookman, B-O-O-K-M-A-N, change one letter in it and rearrange the result to name a famous person who wrote books.
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My bookman is a fab cook and makes a mean cup of coffee and I can knit you warm woolly socks.
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The bookman is the only one that actually gives translations of the various tenses including pluperfect subjunctive.
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Early nineteenth-century phenomena such as bibliomania and the figure of the "bookman" helped to spark a widespread awareness of books as printed objects and an interest in the physical dimensions of the readerly relationship to them.
Article Abstracts 2004
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Romantic familiar essay (e.g. William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt) and, on the other, of the career of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, prolific bibliographer and premier bibliomaniac, whose reception underlines the way in which the figure of the "bookman" helped to destabilize the divisions organizing the intellectual field.
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Mahomedans, and have attained to a remarkable degree of civilization, under the influence of a law that no 'bookman'
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