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# bookworm

«bookworm» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who loves reading and reads a lot of books** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bookworm, bookworms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) A person who loves reading and reads a lot of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#m1)

2) A small insect larva that eats through the pages or bindings of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and stories, said kindly: She's a real bookworm. Library and reading challenges. Phrases: a real bookworm, a bit of a bookworm.

### examples

- She's a real bookworm and reads every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#x1)
- The bookworm finished three books on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#x2)
- My dad calls me a bookworm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#x3)
- Bookworms love the school library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#x4)
- A bookworm had eaten holes in the old book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#x5)
- He was a bookworm who always had a book in his bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/#x6)

### note

Usually friendly, not an insult. Similar: avid reader. The insect sense is old; the "worms" are really beetle larvae.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bookworm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookworm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.