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bibliotaphs

bibliotaphs is the plural of bibliotaph.

Meaning of bibliotaph

Noun

bibliotaph (plural bibliotaphs)

  1. (rare) One who "buries" books, typically by hoarding them unread, hiding them, locking them away, or otherwise shutting them up and keeping them from use
    • He was, by his knowledge of the intellectual value of his store, a little bit of a bibliotaph: we have reason to think he had this feeling to an extent he knew nothing of himself.1866 August 31, The Bookseller

Questions about bibliotaphs

What is bibliotaphs the plural of?
Bibliotaphs is the plural of bibliotaph.

Words near bibliotaphs in the dictionary

  1. bibliosnitches
  2. bibliotaph
  3. bibliotaphic
  4. bibliotaphist
  5. bibliotaphists
  6. bibliotaphs
  7. bibliothec
  8. bibliotheca
  9. bibliothecae
  10. bibliothecal
  11. bibliothecarial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bibliotaphs (page history and authors); bibliotaph (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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