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a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

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Usage examples (39)
  • My bookman is a fab cook and makes a mean cup of coffee and I can knit you warm woolly socks.
  • The bookman is the only one that actually gives translations of the various tenses including pluperfect subjunctive.
  • Take the word bookman, B-O-O-K-M-A-N, change one letter in it and rearrange the result to name a famous person who wrote books.
  • I said take the word bookman, B-O-O-K-M-A-N, change one letter in it, and rearrange the result to name a famous person who wrote books.
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