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librovore

librovore noun: synonym of bookworm.

Noun

librovore (plural librovores)

  1. (rare) Synonym of bookworm.
    • Jim Shields, the well-known bibliophag (or shall we say librovore), tells us that at 1303 North Second street he has seen the following sign, well-made and neatly painted: When Alliterations Are Completed, etc.1919 June 23, “[The Chaffing Dish] The Poetical Painter”, in Evening Public Ledger, volume V, number 241, Philadelphia, Pa.: Public Ledger Company, →ISSN, page 10, column 5
    • Like any honest bibliophag—or shall I say librovore—I can never see anyone reading a book without a passion to find out, by means foul or fair, what it is. So I stopped and said, “Well, Sister, what are you reading?”1922 July, The Rotarian: The Magazine of Service, page 33, column 1

Examples of librovore in a sentence

  • Smith’s Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton written long ago but recently revived among a few librovores.1938, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 19, page 21, column 2:
  • When I think of "kids when I was a kid", I'm thinking of those relatively smart librovores that I mixed with.1997 August 22, Paul Vincent, “Re: "A message in Mime Format"”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <5tkqt8$pb5$1@despair.u-net.com>:
  • What will die-hard librovores — which make up the Kindle faithful — think of their beloved e-reader suddenly becoming more computer than book?2010 May 6, “Kindle upgrade adds Facebook and Twitter”, in International Bali Post, page 13:

Synonyms of librovore

Forms of librovore

plurallibrovores

Origin of librovore

From libro- + -vore.

Questions about librovore

What does librovore mean?
Librovore means synonym of bookworm.
How do you use librovore in a sentence?
Smith’s Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton written long ago but recently revived among a few librovores.
What part of speech is librovore?
Librovore is a noun.
What is the plural of librovore?
The plural of librovore is librovores.

Words near librovore in the dictionary

  1. libro-
  2. librocubicularist
  3. librocubicularists
  4. librophile
  5. librophiles
  6. librovore
  7. librovores
  8. librul
  9. libruls
  10. libry
  11. libs

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