bookshopkeeper
bookshopkeeper noun: one who operates a bookshop.
Noun
bookshopkeeper (plural bookshopkeepers)
- One who operates a bookshop.
- One of the greatest temptations for the resort bookshopkeeper is to stock those miscellaneous articles which come under the heading of “gifts” or “souvenirs.” It is true that summer visitors will pick up some novelty to take home to the family. But they will no longer spend their precious money for...1934 June 30, Thelma Browne Ziemer, “Hints for the Summer-Resort Bookshop”, in The Publishers’ Weekly: The American Book Trade Journal, volume CXXV, number 26, Camden, N.J., pages 2331–2332
- One day my luck was an airy basement, in which like magic appeared a bamboo table, a portable gramophone, and a case of records, thoughtfully provided by a neighbouring bookshopkeeper-Warden: the records being taken from his stock-in-trade.1940 September, W. R. Anderson, “Of This and That”, in The Musical Times, volume LXXXI, London: Novello and Company Limited, […], page 368, column 1
- Synonyms:
- bookstorekeeper
Examples of bookshopkeeper in a sentence
- Anyhow, one of the bookshopkeepers in the Science Exhibition grounds displays all kinds of foreign scientific books, but not this book.1959 January 25, Jawaharlal Nehru, “To B.V. Keskar”, in Madhavan K[ezhkepat] Palat, editor, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, 2nd series...
- “You look like a Tourist,” says the Indian bookshopkeeper to an Indian shopper in dark glasses and a tall wide floppy black hat.1972, Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One, Detroit, Mich.: Broadside Press, →ISBN, page 90:
- One, after five years as a draughtsman, was on the ‘dole’; one, who had left school at fifteen, was a production designer in a large engineering firm; and one was a bookshopkeeper.1977, Andrew Tolson, The Limits of Masculinity, London: Tavistock Publications, →ISBN, page 135:
- D. is 68 years of age and has been a bookshopkeeper in his small town for 40 years, married for 41 years, and has one son.1988, C.P.M. Knipscheer, L. Claessens, M.F.H.G. Wimmers, “Time Use and Activities of the Aged in the Netherlands”, in Karen Altergott...
Synonyms of bookshopkeeper
Forms of bookshopkeeper
| plural | bookshopkeepers |
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Origin of bookshopkeeper
From bookshop + keeper, under the influence of shopkeeper.
Questions about bookshopkeeper
- What does bookshopkeeper mean?
- Bookshopkeeper means one who operates a bookshop.
- How do you use bookshopkeeper in a sentence?
- Anyhow, one of the bookshopkeepers in the Science Exhibition grounds displays all kinds of foreign scientific books, but not this book.
- What part of speech is bookshopkeeper?
- Bookshopkeeper is a noun.
- What is the plural of bookshopkeeper?
- The plural of bookshopkeeper is bookshopkeepers.
Words near bookshopkeeper in the dictionary
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