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Definition of Bookman
1. Noun. A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines.
Generic synonyms: Intellect, Intellectual
Specialized synonyms: Academician, Schoolman, Alum, Alumna, Alumnus, Grad, Graduate, Arabist, Bibliographer, Bibliophile, Book Lover, Booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, Doctor, Dr., Goliard, Historian, Historiographer, Humanist, Initiate, Learned Person, Pundit, Savant, Islamist, Licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, Master, Mujtihad, Musicologist, Bookworm, Pedant, Scholastic, Philomath, Philosopher, Post Doc, Postdoc, Reader, Renaissance Man, Generalist, Renaissance Man, Salutatorian, Salutatory Speaker, Scholiast, Medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer, Valedictorian, Valedictory Speaker, Vedist
Specialized synonyms: Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton, Lorenzo De'medici, Lorenzo The Magnificent, Edmond Malone, Edmund Malone, Malone, Marcus Terentius Varro, Varro
Derivative terms: Scholarly, Scholarship, Studentship
Definition of Bookman
1. n. A studious man; a scholar.
Definition of Bookman
1. Noun. (context: Old English Law) One who held bookland. ¹
2. Noun. A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student; one who is more familiar with books than with men and things. ¹
3. Noun. One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bookman
1. a scholar [n BOOKMEN] - See also: scholar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookman
Literary usage of Bookman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thackeray by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1903)
"We want every reader of these lines to become a reader of "THE bookman." If you
are not acquainted with " THE bookman," will you kindly send a postcard to ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"Review 1899.—Portrait of RK, after Hon. J. Collier. bookman: of .... To Rudyard
Kipling, by WGL bookman: Dec. LS Livingston on " From Sea to Sea. ..."
3. Thomas Carlyleby Gilbert Keith Chesterton, John Ernest Hodder-Williams by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, John Ernest Hodder-Williams (1903)
"If you are not acquainted with " THE bookman," will you kindly send a postcard to
... THE bookman" is the only monthly magazine devoted exclusively to the ..."
4. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"bookman, Vol. XXVI, pp. 266-267. November, 1907. Humor and the Heroine. ...
bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 186- 192. October, 1913. North Carolina. T. Dixon. ..."
5. Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index by Frederick Winthrop Faxon, Mary Estella Bates, Anne C. Sutherland (1917)
"1: 671; bookman 2: 39. "Novel of adventure of ninety years since — starting with an
... bookman. The inheritors (in collaboration with Ford Madox Hueffer). ..."
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