bibliomaniac
bibliomaniac noun: a person who is obsessed with owning books, especially valuable ones.
Noun
bibliomaniac (plural bibliomaniacs)
- A person who is obsessed with owning books, especially valuable ones.
- 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.1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97
- Synonyms:
- bibliomane, bibliomanist
Synonyms of bibliomaniac
Forms of bibliomaniac
| plural | bibliomaniacs |
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Origin of bibliomaniac
From biblio- + -maniac.
Words formed from bibliomaniac
Words that rhyme with bibliomaniac
- maniac
- automaniac
- dipsomaniac
- paramaniac
- Anglomaniac
- anthomaniac
- Beatlemaniac
- brainiac
- cocainomaniac
- decalcomaniac
- demonomaniac
- dinomaniac
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- egomaniac
- eleutheromaniac
- ergomaniac
- erotomaniac
- etheromaniac
- ethnomaniac
- Euromaniac
- flagellomaniac
- Gallomaniac
- Germanomaniac
- graphomaniac
- Grecomaniac
- heroinomaniac
- hydromaniac
- hypomaniac
- hysteromaniac
- infomaniac
- kleptomaniac
- logomaniac
- megalomaniac
- melomaniac
- mentulomaniac
- metromaniac
- micromaniac
- monomaniac
- morphinomaniac
- morphiomaniac
- mythomaniac
- narcomaniac
- nymphomaniac
- oenomaniac
- oniomaniac
- orchidomaniac
- pornomaniac
- Pottermaniac
- pyromaniac
- Remainiac
- Russomaniac
- satyromaniac
- sonnettomaniac
- squandermaniac
- substratomaniac
- theatromaniac
- theomaniac
- timbromaniac
- tulipomaniac
- xenomaniac
Questions about bibliomaniac
- What does bibliomaniac mean?
- Bibliomaniac means a person who is obsessed with owning books, especially valuable ones.
- What part of speech is bibliomaniac?
- Bibliomaniac is a noun.
- What is the plural of bibliomaniac?
- The plural of bibliomaniac is bibliomaniacs.
Words near bibliomaniac in the dictionary
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