A single word meaning deep love of reading
2014年6月9日 · Bibliophily is the fondness or love for books or reading & describing someone who likes to read as having: Ballycumber n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. - (1983) coined by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. & Librocubicularist (plural librocubicularists). (rare) A person who reads in bed. &
[General] love to read/ love reading - UsingEnglish.com
2012年8月17日 · going back in time, I remembered another English textbook according to which verbs of emotions( like, love,dislike,hate) are followed by gerund.There was an exercise where you had to use infinitive or gerund to complete some sentences and of course "I love to read books by the sea " was considered incorrect according to the rule!!:roll:
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Someone who buys a lot of books but barely reads them
2015年12月28日 · In that sense (sense b), how easily the book may be read is irrelevant; in the other sense (sense a, shown above, manifest in persons as sense c, also shown above), while it is possible to peer down between the uncut leaves, it is quite difficult to read an uncut book. ["unˈcut, adj.". OED Online. December 2015. Oxford University Press.
[Grammar] I've read or I read? - UsingEnglish.com
2008年3月28日 · If you use the past tense of 'read', then there is a slight suggestion to me that the last occasion was quite some time ago. I would expect the context/co-text to at least imply this - for example, if the speaker were talking, some time after graduating, about his time at university.
How do read the date 'December 31?' - UsingEnglish.com
2014年1月27日 · 'December 31 is the 365th day of the year.' December 31 is read as 'December thirty-first' or 'December thirty-one?' Thank you
Can someone explain the phrase "All is fair in love and war"?
2011年6月13日 · The link between love and fighting for a kingdom was already established in a proverbial form by 1606: An old saw hath bin, Faith's breach for love and kingdoms is no sin (Marston, THE FAWN). Later in the same century Aphra Behn writes: Advantages are lawful in love and war (THE EMPEROR AND THE MOON, 1677). There was also the strong ...
What does "no love lost" mean and where does it come from?
2014年4月4日 · Extreme love (the image is of love shared in a common vessel; when affection was mutual, none of the love in the vessel was lost): Sore sicke he was, and like to dye, No helpe his life could save; His wife by him as sicke did lye, And both possest one grave. No love between these two was lost, Each was to other kinde;
etymology - Origin of phrasal verb "love on" - English Language
Two guys both fancy the same girl; less poetically, the speaker is saying they both have the right to try their luck and love on (i.e. - continue to "love"). My guess is Dryden's love = pursue your suit (archaically, make love to her). But you could just as easily interpret it …
Is there a word for love of nightmares/dark/macabre things?
2016年9月24日 · Phobophilia, which literally translates to "love of fear," from phobo meaning fear and philia meaning love, would fit in nicely. A person who loves the disturbing and horrifying, then, may be known as a phobophile. Exercising his phobophilia, Justin decided to help the Exorcist increase its box office take.