Library / English Dictionary

BOOKMAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("bookman" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bookman"):

Vedist (a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas)

valedictorian; valedictory speaker (the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement)

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

Sinologist (a student of Chinese history and language and culture)

Shakespearean; Shakespearian (a Shakespearean scholar)

medieval Schoolman; Schoolman (a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism)

scholiast (a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author))

salutatorian; salutatory speaker (a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises)

generalist; Renaissance man (a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests)

Renaissance man (a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics)

reader (a person who enjoys reading)

post doc; postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

philomath (a lover of learning)

bookworm; pedant; scholastic (a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit)

musicologist (a student of musicology)

academician; schoolman (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)

alum; alumna; alumnus; grad; graduate (a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university))

Arabist (a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture)

bibliographer (someone trained in compiling bibliographies)

bibliophile; book lover; booklover (someone who loves (and usually collects) books)

Cabalist; Kabbalist (a student of the Jewish Kabbalah)

doctor; Dr. (a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution)

goliard (a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs)

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

humanist (a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts)

initiate; learned person; pundit; savant (someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field)

Islamist (a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies)

licentiate (holds a license (degree) from a (European) university)

Masorete; Masorite; Massorete (a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah))

master (someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution)

mujtihad (an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts)

Instance hyponyms:

Crichton; James Crichton; The Admirable Crichton (Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582))

Lorenzo de'Medici; Lorenzo the Magnificent (Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492))

Edmond Malone; Edmund Malone; Malone (English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812))

Marcus Terentius Varro; Varro (Roman scholar (116-27 BC))

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