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bookstores

bookstores is the plural of bookstore.

Meaning of bookstore

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.

Phrases with bookstores

Questions about bookstores

What is bookstores the plural of?
Bookstores is the plural of bookstore.

Words near bookstores in the dictionary

  1. bookstop
  2. bookstops
  3. bookstore
  4. bookstorekeeper
  5. bookstorekeepers
  6. bookstores
  7. bookswap
  8. bookswaps
  9. booksy
  10. booktalk
  11. booktalks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookstores (page history and authors); bookstore (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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