name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
bookman
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CMU ARPABET: B UH1 K M AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who held bookland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Old-English, historical
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 3
A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student of books.
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noun
Meaning 4
One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.
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noun
Meaning 5
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person, student
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Broader terms: intellectual, intellect
Narrower terms: academician, schoolman, alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, booklover, book lover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Massorete, Masorite, master, mujtihad, musicologist, pedant, bookworm, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, postdoc, post doc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Shakespearian, Shakespearean, Sinologist, theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist, Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton, Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Malone, Edmund Malone, Edmond Malone, Varro, Marcus Terentius Varro
History
Etymology
From Middle English bocman, from Old English bōcmann (“bookman, a holder of bookland”), equivalent to book + man.