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bookstore

/ˈbʊkstɔː/

bookstore noun: a store where books are bought and sold.

bookstore: a store where books are bought and sold
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Noun

bookstore (plural bookstores)

  1. A store where books are bought and sold.
    • [Editor David W. Blight said:] In 1795, after producing his own geography textbook, modeled on Jedidiah Morse’s famous Geography (1784), Bingham resigned as a teacher in the Boston schools, opened a bookstore on Cornhill Street in Boston, and devoted himself to producing schoolbooks.1997 [1797], David W. Blight, “Editor's Introduction: The Peculiar Dialogue Between Caleb Bingham and Frederick Douglass”, in Caleb Bingham, edited by David W. Blight, The Columbian Orator...
  2. (Philippines) A stationery store.

bookstore meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

bookstore in Tamil

புத்தகக் கடை

bookstore in Urdu

bookstore
کتب خانہ kutub-xānā

bookstore in Bengali

বইয়ের দোকান

bookstore in Telugu

పుస్తకాల దుకాణం
More languagesFewer languages
bookstore in Malayalam
പുസ്തകക്കട
bookstore in Kannada
ಪುಸ್ತಕದಂಗಡಿ, ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ಅಂಗಡಿ
bookstore in Gujarati
પુસ્તકાલય pustakālay, કેતાબખાનું ketābkhānũ

Examples of bookstore in a sentence

  • The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.
  • As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.
  • I stopped in several bookstores to browse.

All 30 example sentences with bookstore

Synonyms of bookstore

Forms of bookstore

pluralbookstores
alternative formbook store

Plural of bookstore: bookstores

Origin of bookstore

From book + store.

Words formed from bookstore

Questions about bookstore

What does bookstore mean?
Bookstore means a store where books are bought and sold.
What is bookstore in Tamil?
Bookstore in Tamil is புத்தகக் கடை. See Bookstore meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bookstore?
Bookstore is a noun.
How do you pronounce bookstore?
Bookstore is pronounced /ˈbʊkstɔː/ (UK).
What is the plural of bookstore?
The plural of bookstore is bookstores.

Words near bookstore in the dictionary

  1. bookstave
  2. bookstaves
  3. bookstock
  4. bookstop
  5. bookstops
  6. bookstore
  7. bookstorekeeper
  8. bookstorekeepers
  9. bookstores
  10. bookswap
  11. bookswaps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bookstore (page history and authors); bookstore (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); کتب خانہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); bookstore (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bookstore (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bookstore (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bookstore (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કેતાબખાનું (Gujarati) (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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