bibliophile
/ˈbɪb li əˌfaɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of bibliophile (“one who loves the Bible”).
Example Sentences
- "A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books."
- "[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ..."
- "So, just for fun, here are the versions of Romans 1:26-27. Now don't go assuming jsmith@epas.utoronto.ca must be some kind of great bibliophile because he got all these old versions together. They're all in one place, the _New Testament Octapla_ by Luther Weigle, and I added a few of my own texts from my library; took me only a few minutes to type them."
- "I dont^([sic]) consider myself a bibliophile....I just think it is God's word."
- ">HA HA here we have this Bastachs Fuckhead >defending Christianity […] Your name is as wrong as the rest of your idiotic notions: you're not a bibliophile, you're a bibliophobe."
- "> Whether or not a nonbeliever would care is moot. That's what bugs me about Bibliophiles, "Bible-worshippers." I was replying to a nonbeliever, so it most definitely is not moot. Look at the context, man."
Etymology
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɪb li əˌfaɪl/
- British English: /ˈbɪblɪəˌfaɪl/