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shopful

shopful noun: the amount that a shop can hold.

Noun

shopful (plural shopfuls or shopsful)

  1. The amount that a shop can hold.
    • Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province.1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne
    • Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin

Forms of shopful

pluralshopfuls
pluralshopsful

Origin of shopful

From shop + -ful.

Questions about shopful

What does shopful mean?
Shopful means the amount that a shop can hold.
What part of speech is shopful?
Shopful is a noun.
What is the plural of shopful?
The plural of shopful is shopfuls.

Words near shopful in the dictionary

  1. shopfolk
  2. shopfolks
  3. shopfront
  4. shopfronted
  5. shopfronts
  6. shopful
  7. shopfuls
  8. shopgirl
  9. shopgirlish
  10. shopgirls
  11. shopgoer

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