bibliopole
bibliopole noun: a bookseller.
Noun
bibliopole (plural bibliopoles)
- A bookseller.
- ‘Nay, Sir; he certainly was a bookseller. He had served his time regularly, was a member of the Stationers' company, kept a shop in the face of mankind, purchased copyright, and was a bibliopole, Sir, in every sense.’1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 613
- Synonyms:
- bibliopolist
bibliopole meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Arabic
bibliopole in Tamil
- புத்தக வணிகர், அருநூல் வணிகர்
bibliopole in Bengali
- বই বিক্রেতা
bibliopole in Arabic
- bookseller, especially of secondhand or rare books
- صَحَّاف ṣaḥḥāf
Synonyms of bibliopole
Forms of bibliopole
| plural | bibliopoles |
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Origin of bibliopole
From Latin bibliopōla, from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + πωλέω (pōléō, “to barter, sell”) — (compare with the etymology of monopoly).
Words formed from bibliopole
Questions about bibliopole
- What does bibliopole mean?
- Bibliopole means a bookseller.
- What is bibliopole in Tamil?
- Bibliopole in Tamil is புத்தக வணிகர், அருநூல் வணிகர். See Bibliopole meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bibliopole?
- Bibliopole is a noun.
- What is the plural of bibliopole?
- The plural of bibliopole is bibliopoles.
Words near bibliopole in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bibliopole (page history and authors); bibliopole (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bibliopole (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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