English

Noun

bibliophile ‎(plural bibliophiles)

1. One who loves books.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:

     [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...

2. One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.

Synonyms

• booklover

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:bibliophile.

Related terms

• bibliophilia

Translations

See also

• museophile
• bookworm