Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bibliograph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bib-li-o-graph
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To create a bibliography about (some topic).

Transitive verb

noun

A bibliographer.

Example Sentences

"Even Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic are engaged in bibliographing their own geographies, while the subject is being taken up in Egypt, in the United States, in Paraguay, in Australia, and in Canada."
"Further difficulties were placed in his way during the revision of the proofs, and the interference of the catalogue committee hampered his work. Although the opinion of bibliographs was in favour of Panizzi, the committee resolved that he be no longer employed."
"It is for persevering bibliographs to accomplish a task that is more profound and further reaching than the research of the book cataloguer."

Etymology

Back-formation from bibliography. Equivalent to biblio- + -graph.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

bibliographs (present, singular) bibliographing (participle, present) bibliographed (participle, past) bibliographed (past) bibliographs (plural)

Derived Forms

bibliographing

Questions

What does bibliograph mean?: To create a bibliography about (some topic).
Where does bibliograph come from?: Back-formation from bibliography. Equivalent to biblio- + -graph.

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