Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A librarian.
- n. A library.
- Of or pertaining to a library or librarian.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A librarian.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A librarian.
Etymologies
- Latin bibliothecarius: compare French bibliothécaire. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My ten minutes passed very rapidly in conversation with these two experts in books, the bibliopole and the bibliothecary.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bibliothecary’.
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
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Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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Favorite Words II
antipode, subsumed, maladroit, quidnunc, tonsorial, savvy, vignette, retrograde, flummoxed, ne plus ultra, icosahedron, plethora and 138 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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bosporian's Words
corybantiasm, delphic, oneiromancy, bibliothecary, wyrd, lygophilia, cimmerian, agathodaemon, crepuscular, ignosis, peisithanatos, alpenglow and 94 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 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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From the Word Museum
A selection of Words from the book, The Word Museum: The most remarkable English words ever forgotten compiled by Jeffrey Kacirk.
Also see sionnach's list Discovered in the Word Museumabcedarian, abracadabrant, aflunters, aforcing, anywhen, babies-in-the-eyes, back-friend, barlihood, beblubbered, begrumpled, begrutten, bibitory and 73 more...
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Miscellany, pt. b
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bestiary bibliothecary was a synonym of 'library' ca. 1553, then 'librarian' in 1611. Jul 24, 2008
missanthropist Keeper of a library.
Elisha Cole, English Dictionary, 1713 May 19, 2008