What does bookworm mean?

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ˈbʊkˌwɜrmbook·worm

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pedant, bookworm, scholasticnoun

    a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

  2. bookwormnoun

    someone who spends a great deal of time reading

Wiktionary

  1. bookwormnoun

    Any of various insects that infest books.

  2. bookwormnoun

    An avid book reader.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bookwormnoun

    Etymology: from book and worm.

    My lion, like a moth or bookworm, feeds upon nothing but paper, and I shall beg of them to diet him with wholesome and substantial food. Guardian, №. 114.

    Among those venerable galleries and solitary scenes of the university, I wanted but a black gown, and a salary, to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Alexander Pope, Letters.

Wikipedia

  1. bookworm

    Bibliophilia or bibliophilism is the love of books. A bibliophile or bookworm is an individual who loves and frequently reads and/or collects books.

ChatGPT

  1. bookworm

    A bookworm is a person who enjoys reading and spends a lot of their time doing so. This term often refers to someone who reads for pleasure rather than for academic or work purposes, and they typically have an extensive collection of books at home. The term can sometimes have a slightly negative connotation, suggesting someone who prefers books to people or other forms of entertainment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bookwormnoun

    any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known

  2. Bookwormnoun

    a student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation

Wikidata

  1. Bookworm

    Bookworm is a word-forming computer puzzle game by PopCap Games. From a grid of available letters, players connect letters to form words. As words are formed, they are removed from the grid and the remaining letters collapse to fill the available space. As in Scrabble, players earn more points by creating longer words or words which use less common letters. In November 2006, PopCap Games released a spiritual successor, Bookworm Adventures. Bookworm was released for the Nintendo DS digital distribution service DSiWare on November 30, 2009. It has also been released on the regular Nintendo DS cartridge.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bookworm in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bookworm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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