book lover

1. 1.

   someone who loves (and usually collects) books

   Synonymsbibliophilebooklover

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Questions about book lover

What does book lover mean?

book lover means "someone who loves (and usually collects) books".

What is another word for book lover?

Close synonyms include bibliophile, booklover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is book lover a common word?

book lover is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.