bookman

1. 1.

   a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

   Synonymsscholarscholarly personstudent

   Broaderintellectual

   NarroweracademicianalumnusArabistbibliographerbibliophileCabalistdoctorgoliardhistorianhumanist

Other forms of bookman

plural

bookmans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bookman

What does bookman mean?

bookman means "a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines".

How many syllables are in bookman?

bookman has 2 syllables: book-man. The stress falls on "book". In IPA it is /ˈbʊkmən/.

What is another word for bookman?

Close synonyms include scholar, scholarly person, student. 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 bookman a common word?

bookman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.