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bibliophil

bibliophil is the archaic form of bibliophile.

Meaning of bibliophile

Noun

bibliophile (plural bibliophiles)

  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.1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97
  2. One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
  3. (rare) One who loves the Bible.
    • 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...1995 April 23, Julian Smith, “Romans 1:26-27 Variants II”, in bit.listserv.catholic (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Feb 2026

Forms of bibliophil

pluralbibliophils

Questions about bibliophil

What is bibliophil the archaic form of?
Bibliophil is the archaic form of bibliophile.

Words near bibliophil in the dictionary

  1. bibliophagic
  2. bibliophagist
  3. bibliophagists
  4. bibliophagous
  5. bibliophagy
  6. bibliophil
  7. bibliophilately
  8. bibliophile
  9. bibliophiles
  10. bibliophilia
  11. bibliophilic

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