bibliophile

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who loves books.
    — A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.
  2. One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
  3. One who loves the Bible. rare
    — So, just for fun, here are the versions of Romans 1:26-27. Now don't go assuming jsmith@epas.utoronto.ca must be some kind of great bibliophile because he got all these old versions together. They're all in one place, the _New Testament Octapla_ by Luther Weigle, and I added a few of my own texts from my library; took me only a few minutes to type them.

词形变化

bibliophiles plural bibliophil alternative,dated

词源

First attested in 1820. From biblio- + -phile (from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”)), probably after French bibliophile.
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