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bookman

bookman noun: one who held bookland.

Noun

bookman (plural bookmen)

  1. (Old-English, historical) One who held bookland.
  2. A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student of books.
  3. One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.

Proper noun capitalized: Bookman

Bookman (plural Bookmans)

  1. A surname.

Forms of bookman

Noun
pluralbookmen
Proper noun
pluralBookmans

Origin of bookman

From Middle English bocman, from Old English bōcmann (“bookman, a holder of bookland”), equivalent to book + man.

Words formed from bookman

Questions about bookman

What does bookman mean?
Bookman means one who held bookland.
What part of speech is bookman?
Bookman can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bookman?
The plural of bookman is bookmen.

Words near bookman in the dictionary

  1. bookly
  2. bookmaker
  3. bookmakers
  4. bookmaking
  5. bookmakings
  6. bookman
  7. Bookmans
  8. bookmanship
  9. bookmark
  10. bookmarkable
  11. bookmarked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookman (page history and authors); Bookman (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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