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/bˈʊkmən/ Listen

Bookman

noun

(pl. bookmen)

A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines. Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person, student.

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... of the brisk and noisy novitiate that preceded the solemn vow and the dull retreat;—the social parties, the merry suppers, the open-handed, open-hearted fellowship of riotous, delightful, extravagant, thoughtless YOUTH. And Caleb was not a bookman—not a scholar; he had no resources in himself, no occupation but his indolent and ill-paid duties. The emotions, therefore, of the Active Man were easily aroused within him. But if this comparison between his past and ...

— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... humming-bird— His feasts are honey-fine,— (With hi! hilloo! And clover-dew And roses lush and rare!) His roses are the phrase and word Of olden tomes divine; (With hi! and ho! And pinks ablow And posies everywhere!) The Bookman he's a humming-bird,— He steals from song to song— He scents the ripest-blooming rhyme, And takes his heart along And sacks all sweets of bursting verse And ballads, throng on throng. (With ho! and hey! And brook and brae, And ...

— Songs of Friendship • James Whitcomb Riley

... we've read, the month's Six Selling Best The Bookman scored with elephantine Jest, Have sold a half a Million in a Year, Yet no one ever heard of ...

— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess

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