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bibliophiles

bibliophiles is the plural 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

Noun capitalized: Bibliophiles

Bibliophiles

  1. (plural) plural of Bibliophile

Questions about bibliophiles

What is bibliophiles the plural of?
Bibliophiles is the plural of bibliophile.
What part of speech is bibliophiles?
Bibliophiles is a noun.

Words near bibliophiles in the dictionary

  1. bibliophagous
  2. bibliophagy
  3. bibliophil
  4. bibliophilately
  5. bibliophile
  6. bibliophiles
  7. bibliophilia
  8. bibliophilic
  9. bibliophilically
  10. bibliophilies
  11. bibliophilism

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