Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dealer in rare books.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bookseller; now, especially, a dealer in rare and curious books.
Wiktionary
- n. A bookseller, especially of secondhand or rare books
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who sells books.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books)
Etymologies
- Latin bibliopōla, bookseller, from Greek bibliopōlēs : biblio-, biblio- + pōlein, to sell; see pel-4 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Now if you were in fact a bibliopole, it might be excusable, however you claim to know something about physics/nature.”
“Davies, the bibliopole of Russell Street, lets us into the secret of this failure.”
“A certain would-be bibliopole, desirous of emulating the Constables, Boyds, and Colburns of this century, lately opened a couple of windows at”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829
“Shakspeare, Ray, &c., and also of the Record publications; and lastly, which we have just received from the worthy bibliopole of Auld Reekie,”
“With some qualification, I am happy to say that I believe the worthy bibliopole claims no more than his due.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
“Our remarks have hitherto applied to the monastic scribes alone; but it is necessary here to speak of the secular copyists, who were an important class during the middle ages, and supplied the functions of the bibliopole of the ancients.”
“In order to augment this amount, the bibliopole naturally consults the taste of his customers; and nearly the sole remaining customers of the modern bookseller are -- the circulating libraries.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
“The old bibliopole De Bury flattered himself that he admired wisdom because it purchaseth such vast delight.”
“Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of.”
“He had served his time regularly, was a member of the Stationers 'company, kept a shop in the face of mankind, purchased copyright, and was a bibliopole [1022], Sir, in every sense.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bibliopole’.
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
wringing-machine, especially, device, field, scrip, hit, catch, take, buck, flip, effluvium, proselyte and 107 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Unbilby
billbergia, bibacious, bibliophile, bibble, bill, bibulous, bill medley and b..., babliaminy, bilbydactyl, bibliopole, billety, beilby's ball and 106 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Biblio-
I have a mad love affair with biblio- words. I collect them. Feel free to add your favourite biblio- words. :]
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Biblio-Words
biblioclast, bibliognost, biblioklept, bibliokleptomaniac, bibliolatry, bibliomancy, bibliomane, bibliopegy, bibliophagist, bibliophobia, bibliopoesy, bibliopole and 19 more...
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berkeleyfoodie's Words
nitromethane, cuspidor, portmanteau, pylon, harmless drudge, lexiphile, equestrian, bibliopole, dulcimer, bacon, felicity, words, words, wor...
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Bibliomania and related conditions
All words and definitions on this list are taken from the "Bibliolexicon" on page 134 of A Passion for Books, edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan (1999).
bibliobibule, biblioclast, bibliodemon, bibliognoste, bibliographe, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliolestes, bibliomancer, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliophage and 6 more...
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Miscellany, pt. b
blowball, blackdamp, bedfast, basifixed, bee willikers, baby bee-lips, bilabiate, ballyhooly, ballyhoo of blazes, balneary, balaniferous, barysphere and 70 more...
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concerning books
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bibliopole.
fbharjo especially a magnanimous type of magnate (magnetic pole). Nov 9, 2011
sionnach A seller of books Dec 22, 2010
jmjarmstrong JM wonders who is the most northerly bibliopole and are they related to the most southerly bibliopole and are they mates or enemies? Jan 19, 2010