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bibliophage

/ˈbɪbliəfeɪdʒ/
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Other forms: bibliophages

If you ever snuck a book and a flashlight into bed to read under the covers past bedtime, or got scolded for reading a book when you should have been doing your chores, you might be a bibliophage: an avid reader.

The word bibliophage is composed of two Greek elements: biblio, meaning "book," and the suffix -phage, "one that eats." A bibliophage is quite literally a book-eater, but the word is more frequently used metaphorically. Someone who reads books voraciously, as though they're hungry for them or need them to survive, could be described as a bibliophage, or more commonly, as a "bookworm."

Definitions of bibliophage
  1. noun
    someone who enjoys reading a lot; a bookworm
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