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Meanings of bookman in English
A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines.
Usage of bookman in English
1
The bookman sympathised with him, but asked what was the proposed name.
2
A man who does not possess many books is not a bookman.
3
But the bookman no longer has the opportunity of selecting for a community.
4
This omission he blamed on Ned Kenna the bookman, who was a U.P.
5
The bookman assented, though inwardly he could not but agree with Mrs. Brown.
6
Jaquish was a bookman, and our state treasurer-butno matter.
7
Lowell, for example was a bookman; Roosevelt was a man of action who wrote books.
8
The bookman cannot content himself with a selected library.
9
Such be the bookman's trivial adventures and discoveries.
10
But to tell the truth our bookman is not a bit the wiser as to Reginald FitzRanulf!
11
It is the style of the refined scholar, perhaps also of the bookman and the too conscious critic.
12
Tyss knew books, not merely as a bookman knows them -binding ,size ,edition ,value -butas a scholar.
13
And an Athenian bookman, if impelled
14
After luncheon he took me into his library, a wonderful place, a treasure-house in itself, a bookman's palace.
15
A bookman's weak point, you know!
16
And I, too,- amerebookman!
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Bookman through the time