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bibliograph

bibliograph verb: to create a bibliography about (some topic).

Verb

bibliograph (third-person singular simple present bibliographs, present participle bibliographing, simple past and past participle bibliographed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To create a bibliography about (some topic).
    • Even Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic are engaged in bibliographing their own geographies, while the subject is being taken up in Egypt, in the United States, in Paraguay, in Australia, and in Canada.1896 March, “Some New Books”, in Natural Science: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, volume VIII, number 49, London: Rait, Henderson, & Co., Limited, page 206

Noun

bibliograph (plural bibliographs)

  1. (rare) A bibliographer.
    • Further difficulties were placed in his way during the revision of the proofs, and the interference of the catalogue committee hampered his work. Although the opinion of bibliographs was in favour of Panizzi, the committee resolved that he be no longer employed.1937, Margaret C[ampbell] W[alker] Wicks, The Italian Exiles in London: 1816–1848, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., published 1968, page 134
    • It is for persevering bibliographs to accomplish a task that is more profound and further reaching than the research of the book cataloguer.1957, Barton Currie, “A Fisher of Books and Gumuchian”, in William Targ, editor, Bibliophile in the Nursery: A Bookman's Treasury of Collector's Lore on Old and Rare Children's Books, Cleveland...

Forms of bibliograph

Verb
third-person singular presentbibliographs
present participlebibliographing
past participlebibliographed
pastbibliographed
Noun
pluralbibliographs

Origin of bibliograph

Back-formation from bibliography. Equivalent to biblio- + -graph.

Borrowed from French bibliographe. Equivalent to biblio- + -graph.

Words formed from bibliograph

Questions about bibliograph

What does bibliograph mean?
Bibliograph means to create a bibliography about (some topic).
What part of speech is bibliograph?
Bibliograph can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of bibliograph?
The past tense of bibliograph is bibliographed.

Words near bibliograph in the dictionary

  1. bibliognostic
  2. bibliognosts
  3. bibliogony
  4. bibliogram
  5. bibliograms
  6. bibliograph
  7. bibliographed
  8. bibliographer
  9. bibliographers
  10. bibliographic
  11. bibliographic database

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bibliograph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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