seller
/ˈsɛlə/US/ˈsɛlɚ/
seller noun: someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk. Also the obsolete spelling of cellar.
Noun
seller (plural sellers)
- Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
- Alisha was a seller of fine books.
- De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, announced plans in 2017 to operate a carbon-neutral mine and pointed out that the FTC has warned lab-grown diamond sellers over the veracity of their environmental claims.2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
- Something which sells.
- Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.
- Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87
Proper noun capitalized: Seller
Seller
- An English and Scottish topographic surname, derived from any of several places named Sell.
- An English and Scottish occupational surname for a saddler, or for a person who sells things.
- An English and Scottish metonymic surname for someone who worked in a cellar.
Also used as
seller is also the obsolete spelling of cellar.
seller meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
seller in Hindi
- someone who sells
- बेचने वाला becne vālā, विक्रेता vikretā
seller in Tamil
- விற்பனை செய்பவர்
seller in Marathi
- someone who sells
- विक्रेता vikretā, विकणारा vikṇārā, विकणारी vikṇārī
seller in Urdu
- someone who sells
- بیچْنے والا becne vālā, بائِع bāi'
More languagesFewer languages
- seller in Bengali
- বিক্রেতা bikreta
- seller in Telugu
- విక్రేత, అమ్మకందారు
- seller in Malayalam
- വ്യാപാരി vyāpāri, വിൽപ്പനക്കാരൻ vilppanakkāraṉ
- seller in Kannada
- ಮಾರಾಟಗಾರ
- seller in Punjabi
- ਵਿਕਰੇਤਾ, ਵੇਚਣ ਵਾਲਾ
- seller in Gujarati
- વેચનાર, વેચાણકર્તા
- seller in Pashto
- بايع bāye', خرڅوونکی xarčawunkay, پرولونکی prolunkay
- seller in Tagalog
- tagapagbili
- seller in Arabic
- بَائِع bāʔiʕ, بَائِعَة bāʔiʕa
- seller in Malay
- penjual
- seller in Indonesian
- penjual
- seller in Thai
- ผู้ขาย pûu-kǎai
- seller in Vietnamese
- người bán
- seller in Myanmar
- ရောင်းသူ raung:su
Examples of seller in a sentence
- I negged the seller who didn't send me the widget I paid for.
- The shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller.
- The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.
Forms of seller
| plural | sellers |
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Origin of seller
From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell + -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell + -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).
Alternative forms.
Words formed from seller
- betelseller
- birdseller
- bookseller
- breadseller
- dramseller
- fishseller
- foodseller
- fruitseller
- handseller
- leatherseller
- printseller
- pyramid seller
- ragseller
- rumseller
- seller's market
- seller's remorse
- slopseller
- streetseller
- superseller
- teleseller
- toyseller
- bestseller
- megaseller
- panic seller
- short seller
- system seller
Phrases with seller
Words that rhyme with seller
- teller
- cellar
- smeller
- speller
- impeller
- stellar
- acerebellar
- anticerebellar
- cerebellar
- cerebrocerebellar
- corticocerebellar
- corticothalamocerebellar
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cuneocerebellar
- dweller
- extracerebellar
- frontocerebellar
- hemicerebellar
- hypothalamocerebellar
- intracerebellar
- medicerebellar
- neocerebellar
- noncerebellar
- olivocerebellar
- olivopontocerebellar
- palaeocerebellar
- pancerebellar
- paracerebellar
- parietocerebellar
- pontocerebellar
- precerebellar
- rappeller
- repeller
- reticulocerebellar
- retrocerebellar
- skeller
- spinocerebellar
- steller
- supracerebellar
- tectocerebellar
- transcerebellar
- trigeminocerebellar
- vestibulocerebellar
- yeller
Questions about seller
- What does seller mean?
- Seller means someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
- What is seller in Hindi?
- Seller in Hindi is बेचने वाला (becne vālā), विक्रेता (vikretā). See Seller meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is seller?
- Seller can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce seller?
- Seller is pronounced /ˈsɛlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of seller?
- The plural of seller is sellers.
Words near seller in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: seller (page history and authors); Seller (page history and authors); seller (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seller (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seller (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seller (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seller (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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