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bibliovores

bibliovores is the plural of bibliovore.

Meaning of bibliovore

Noun

bibliovore (plural bibliovores)

  1. (uncommon) Someone or something that consumes books.
    • The book probably was at the bottom of a pile of 14 library books, accidentally got picked up and dumped in the bibliovore labeled “Return Books Here.” […] [Y]ou meekly approach the library to find out what they would do with a book that wasn’t theirs. […] [I]f the marking is on the inside, the...1967 November 17, Roz Davis, “‘Pre-enrollment Held’: Receipts to guard against library errors”, in Brian Weiss, editor, UCLA Daily Bruin, volume LXXII, number 36, Los Angeles, Calif.: Communications...
    Synonyms:
    bibliophage
  2. (figuratively, uncommon) Synonym of bookworm (“avid book reader”).
    • Leisure asked a few Vancouver Sun writers and editors — arguably the city’s most voracious group of bibliovores — about their favorite browsing spots.1980 October 3, “My Favorite Bookstore”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 93, number 383, Vancouver, B.C., →ISSN, page 6L, column 1
    Synonyms:
    bookworm

Questions about bibliovores

What is bibliovores the plural of?
Bibliovores is the plural of bibliovore.

Words near bibliovores in the dictionary

  1. bibliotic
  2. bibliotics
  3. bibliotist
  4. bibliotists
  5. bibliovore
  6. bibliovores
  7. Biblis
  8. biblism
  9. biblist
  10. biblists
  11. bibls.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bibliovores (page history and authors); bibliovore (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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