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librarian
[ lahy-brair-ee-uhn ]
noun
- a person trained in library science and engaged in library service.
- a person who is in charge of any specialized body of literature, as a collection of musical scores.
librarian
/ laɪˈbrɛərɪən /
noun
- a person in charge of or assisting in a library
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- subli·brari·an noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of librarian1
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Example Sentences
The mother had left the fields to become a librarian and her love of literature passed on to her three children.
Marjorie Wilkes Huntley was a New Age feminist, a widow, and a librarian.
How about the man who created her—a lover of women who lived with a wife, his lover, their children, and a wayward librarian?
On stage, Amber spoofed Sarah Palin in a topknot and librarian glasses, yanking a toy gun and stuffed moose from her skirt.
Aloof and bookish, Pius XI (Achille Ratti) spent years as a Vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal.
Because it's so much pleasanter, in a small library like this, to poke about by one's self—with the help of the librarian.
The Marchesa Baroli, at Turin, provided for his maintenance, by engaging him as her secretary and librarian.
The librarian told me I'd never find a copy, and this was on top of a pile of trash in a second-hand shop right here in this town.
She had been trusted by the librarian to take good care of it.
In any case, she may ask the librarian to advise her which biography to read first.
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