bookman(n = noun.person) scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines; Array
is a kind of intellect, intellectual
has particulars: academician, schoolman, alum, alumna, alumnus, grad, graduate, arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, cabalist, kabbalist, doctor, dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, islamist, licentiate, masorete, masorite, massorete, master, mujtihad, musicologist, bookworm, pedant, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, renaissance man, generalist, renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval schoolman, schoolman, shakespearean, shakespearian, sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, vedist, crichton, james crichton, the admirable crichton, lorenzo de'medici, lorenzo the magnificent, edmond malone, edmund malone, malone, marcus terentius varro, varro
A studious man; a scholar. Shak. [1913 Webster]
bookman, n. (pl. -men) a literary man, esp. a reviewer.