bookworm
/ˈbʊkˌwɜrm/
noun
- A person who loves to read and spends a lot of time reading books.
- My sister is a real bookworm; she reads three books a week.
- Even as a child, he was a bookworm who preferred reading to playing outside.
- The library is full of bookworms on rainy afternoons.
- An insect that eats the pages or bindings of books.
- The old book had holes chewed by bookworms.
- A bookworm can damage a valuable collection over time.
- Librarians protect rare books from bookworms with special treatments.
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