bookworm
bookworm is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- academician
- academist
- admirable
- and
- antiquarian
- antiquary
- archaeologist
- bibliomaniac
- bibliophile
- bigwig
- bluestocking
- clerk
- connoisseur
- doctor
- doctrinaire
- don
- education
- feet
- fellow
- genius
- glossographer
- good
- gownsman
- graduate
- grammarian
- illuminati
- learned
- learner
- learning
- lexicographer
- lexicologist
- linguist
- literary
- literati
- litterateur
- man
- manifold
- master
- math
- mullah
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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