DISCOPHILE Definition & Meaning

discophile

[ dis-kuh-fahyl ]

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noun

a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of discophile¹

First recorded in 1935–40; disc + -o- + -phile

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With my father, or Uncle Harry, I used to head up Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village toward the 8th Street Bookshop, lose myself for a while at Discophile, the classical record store, then hit some of the used book dealers that constituted Booksellers Row along Fourth Avenue and Broadway.

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Those stores on my childhood walk, like the 8th Street Bookshop and Discophile, weren’t just places to buy stuff.

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