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Dictionary: book·worm   (bʊk'wûrm') pronunciation
n.
  1. One who spends much time reading or studying.
  2. Any of various insects, especially booklice and silverfish, that infest books and feed on the paste in the bindings.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: bookworm
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bookworm, popular name for the larvae of several beetles that bore through books, e.g., the drugstore, spider, and deathwatch beetles.


WordNet: bookworm
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
  Synonyms: pedant, scholastic

Meaning #2: someone who spends a great deal of time reading


Translations: Bookworm
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bogorm, læsehest

Nederlands (Dutch)
boekenworm

Français (French)
n. - rat de bibliothèque

Deutsch (German)
n. - Bücherwurm, Leseratte

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βιβλιοφάγος, βιβλιόφιλος, (εντομ.) βιβλιοσάρακας, βιβλιοφάγος

Italiano (Italian)
topo di biblioteca

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pessoa (f) que gosta muito de livros, traça (f) (Zool.)

Русский (Russian)
книголюб, книжный червь

Español (Spanish)
n. - ratón de biblioteca

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bokmal

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
书蛀虫, 喜爱读书者, 蠹鱼, 书呆子

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 書蛀蟲, 喜愛讀書者, 蠹魚, 書呆子

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 반대 좀(책을 갉아먹는 벌레), 책[공부]벌레

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - シミ, 本の虫, 染み

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مغرم بالمطالعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדם המתמסר לקריאת-ספרים, תולעת ספרים, זחל או עש החי על נייר ודבק ספרים‬


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