bibliophile

English

Etymology

First attested in 1824. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French bibliophile, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek + . Surface analysis biblio- +‎ -phile.

Noun

bibliophile (plural bibliophiles)

1. One who loves books.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1], page R28:

     [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...

2. One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bibliophile.

Synonyms

• booklover

Antonyms

• bibliophobe

Related terms

• bibliophilia
• arctophile, audiophile, conspirophile, museophile, vexillophile, videophile

Translations

person who loves books

• Catalan: bibliòfil m
• Czech: bibliofil m
• Dutch: bibliofiel (nl)
• Finnish: bibliofiili (fi)
• French: bibliophile (fr) m or f
• German: Bücherfreund m, Bücherfreundin f, Bücherliebhaber m, Bücherliebhaberin f, Buchliebhaber m, Buchliebhaberin f, Bibliophiler (de) m, Bibliophile (de) f
• Greek: βιβλιόφιλος (el) m (vivliófilos)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: bibliofilo (io)
• Kazakh: кітапқұмар (kıtapqūmar)
• Macedonian: книгољубец m (knigoljubec), библиофил m (bibliofil)
• Portuguese: bibliófilo (pt) m, bibliófila f
• Russian: книголю́б (ru) m (knigoljúb), библиофи́л (ru) m (bibliofíl)
• Spanish: bibliófilo (es) m, bibliófila (es) f
• Swedish: bibliofil (sv)
• Turkish: kitapsever (tr), bibliyofil (tr)
• Ukrainian: бібліофі́л (uk) m (bibliofíl)

See also

• museophile
• bookworm

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French

Noun

bibliophile m or f (plural bibliophiles)

1. bibliophile