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book-answerers

book-answerers is the plural of book-answerer.

Meaning of book-answerer

Noun

book-answerer (plural book-answerers)

  1. (obsolete) A critic.
    • If he has much money, he may buy reputation from your book anſwerers, as well as a monument from the guardians of the temple.1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XIII. From the same.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W....

Questions about book-answerers

What is book-answerers the plural of?
Book-answerers is the plural of book-answerer.

Words near book-answerers in the dictionary

  1. book world
  2. book worm
  3. book worms
  4. book-alike
  5. book-answerer
  6. book-answerers
  7. book-bag
  8. book-bags
  9. book-bearer
  10. book-bearers
  11. book-bosomed

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