bookseller
US/ˈbʊksɛlɚ/
bookseller noun: a person engaged in the business of selling books.
Noun
bookseller (plural booksellers)
- A person engaged in the business of selling books.
- A business that sells books.
bookseller meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic
bookseller in Tamil
- புத்தக விற்பனையாளர், புத்தகவிற்பனையாளர்
bookseller in Urdu
- کتاب بیچنے والا, کتاب فروش
bookseller in Bengali
- পুস্তক বিক্রেতা
bookseller in Arabic
- person
- كتابى, كتبي sg or
Examples of bookseller in a sentence
- Thank you to the readers, librarians, booksellers, BookTubers, and bloggers who celebrate stories all over the world.
- Many New York booksellers promoted the impression that Quaritch had sent only 'plugs' (i.e. unsaleable books).
- And so an unsuccessful bookseller writes after his shop is closed on a singularly unsatisfactory day.
Synonyms of bookseller
Forms of bookseller
| plural | booksellers |
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Origin of bookseller
From Middle English boksellere, bok-sillere, equivalent to book + seller.
Words formed from bookseller
Questions about bookseller
- What does bookseller mean?
- Bookseller means a person engaged in the business of selling books.
- What is bookseller in Tamil?
- Bookseller in Tamil is புத்தக விற்பனையாளர், புத்தகவிற்பனையாளர். See Bookseller meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bookseller?
- Bookseller is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bookseller?
- Bookseller is pronounced /ˈbʊksɛlɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of bookseller?
- The plural of bookseller is booksellers.
Words near bookseller in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookseller (page history and authors); bookseller (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bookseller (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bookseller (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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