bookworm

/ˌbʊkˈwʌrm/

/ˈbʊkwəm/

Other forms: bookworms

A bookworm is someone who loves to read. If you're a true bookworm, you'd rather spend Friday nights on the couch with a book than out at a party.

Some people are bookworms from the moment they first learn to read, while others grow into their love of books and reading after encountering a particularly wonderful book. Even people who didn't love the "Harry Potter" series of books mostly concede that they created a whole generation of bookworms. The word bookworm originally referred to a variety of insects that infest and eat paper, including the pages of books.

Definitions of bookworm

1. noun

   someone who spends a great deal of time reading
   type of:

   reader

   a person who enjoys reading
2. noun

   a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
   synonyms: pedant, scholastic

   types:

   purist

   someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)

   type of:

   bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student

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