Bookman Definition

byo͝okmən
bookmen
noun
A literary or scholarly man.
Webster's New World
A man whose work is making, publishing, or selling books.
Webster's New World

(Old English Law) One who held bookland.

Wiktionary

A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student; one who is more familiar with books than with people and things.

Wiktionary

One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.

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Other Word Forms of Bookman

Noun

Singular:
bookman
Plural:
bookmen

Origin of Bookman

  • From Middle English bocman, from Old English bōcmann (“bookman, a holder of bookland”), equivalent to book +‎ man.

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Bookman Sentence Examples

  • These were followed by Scribner's Magazine (1887), the New England Magazine (1889), the Illustrated Review of Reviews (1890), McClure's Magazine (1893), the Bookman (1895), the World's Work (1902), the American Magazine (1906) succeeding Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, and Munsey's Magazine (1889).

  • The leading current monthlies include the New York Forum (1886), Arena (1890), Current Literature (1888), and Bookman, the Chicago, Dial (1880), and the Greenwich, Connecticut, Literary Collector.

  • He contributed to various periodicals, notably to the National Observer and the Bookman, and also to the Book of the Rhymers Club - the English Parnasse Contemporain of the early 'nineties.

  • With the run of his father's library, and the benefits of that born bookman's guidance, he now set out to educate himself.

  • The Bookman (1886), for a combination of popular and literary qualities, and the Badminton (1895), for sport, also deserve mention.

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