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bibliognost

bibliognost noun: one versed in books.

Noun

bibliognost (plural bibliognosts)

  1. One versed in books.
    • Mr. Dibdin, since the above was written, has witnessed the confusion of the mind, and the gigantic industry, of our bibliognoste which consisted of many trunks full of memoranda.[…]A bibliognoste, from the Greek, is one knowing in title-pages and colophons, and in editions; the place and year when...1823, I[saac] D’Israeli, “A Bibliognoste”, in A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature: Consisting of Researches in Literary, Biographical, and Political History; of Critical and Philosophical...
    • Bibliognosts will note that there are few footnotes.1962, William Manchester, Portrait of a President, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, page xiii

Examples of bibliognost in a sentence

  • What it means to be a librarian has changed significantly over the last few decades, and Sheli McHugh is at the forefront of a new generation of tech-savvy bibliognosts.2012 April 15, Patrice Wilding, “Resourceful librarian: City woman puts social media to work for institution”, in The Sunday Times, page F3:
  • Only the bibliognosts knew how many volumes the library held.2019, Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson, Shadows of the Short Days, Gollancz, →ISBN:

Forms of bibliognost

pluralbibliognosts

Origin of bibliognost

From French bibliognoste; equivalent to biblio- (“book”), from Ancient Greek βῐβλῐ́ον (bĭblĭ́on), and γνώστης (gnṓstēs, “expert”).

Questions about bibliognost

What does bibliognost mean?
Bibliognost means one versed in books.
How do you use bibliognost in a sentence?
What it means to be a librarian has changed significantly over the last few decades, and Sheli McHugh is at the forefront of a new generation of tech-savvy bibliognosts.
What part of speech is bibliognost?
Bibliognost is a noun.
What is the plural of bibliognost?
The plural of bibliognost is bibliognosts.

Words near bibliognost in the dictionary

  1. bibliofilm
  2. bibliofilms
  3. bibliog
  4. bibliog.
  5. bibliogenesis
  6. bibliognost
  7. bibliognostic
  8. bibliognosts
  9. bibliogony
  10. bibliogram
  11. bibliograms

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