bookman

bookman

(ˈbʊkˌmæn) n, pl -men1. a student or scholar2. a bookseller

book•man

(ˈbʊk mən, -ˌmæn)

n., pl. -men (-mən, -ˌmɛn) 1. a person whose occupation is creating, selling or publishing books. 2. a studious or learned person; scholar. [1575–85]

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bookman - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplinesscholar, scholarly person, studentintellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creativelyacademician, schoolman - a scholar who is skilled in academic disputationalumna, alumnus, graduate, grad, alum - 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 culturebibliographer - someone trained in compiling bibliographiesbibliophile, book lover, booklover - someone who loves (and usually collects) booksKabbalist, Cabalist - a student of the Jewish KabbalahDr., doctor - a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"goliard - a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songshistorian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about ithumanist - a classical scholar or student of the liberal artslearned person, pundit, savant, initiate - someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly fieldIslamist - a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studieslicentiate - holds a license (degree) from a (European) universityMasorete, 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 institutionmujtihad - an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred textsmusicologist - a student of musicologybookworm, pedant, scholastic - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they meritphilomath - a lover of learningphilosopher - a specialist in philosophypost doc, postdoc - a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degreereader - a person who enjoys readingRenaissance man - a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topicsgeneralist, Renaissance man - a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist"salutatorian, salutatory speaker - a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercisesscholiast - a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)medieval Schoolman, Schoolman - a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticismShakespearean, Shakespearian - a Shakespearean scholarSinologist - a student of Chinese history and language and culturetheologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer - someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theologyvaledictorian, valedictory speaker - the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencementVedist - a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas