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shopkeeperess

shopkeeperess is the female equivalent of shopkeeper.

Meaning of shopkeeper

Noun

shopkeeper (plural shopkeepers)

  1. A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale, or sells door to door.
    • The retail trade of the borough also suffered, for the shopkeepers found it difficult to attract the occupiers of the luxurious villas fast rising on Surbiton Hill, and the shops erected near the station [in Surbiton] made the competition still more keen.1958 July, J. Spencer Gilks, “Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 449
    Synonyms:
    storekeeper

Forms of shopkeeperess

pluralshopkeeperesses
alternative formshopkeepress

Origin of shopkeeperess

From shopkeeper + -ess.

Questions about shopkeeperess

What is shopkeeperess the female equivalent of?
Shopkeeperess is the female equivalent of shopkeeper.

Words near shopkeeperess in the dictionary

  1. shophroth
  2. shophtim
  3. shopkeep
  4. shopkeeper
  5. shopkeeper's privilege
  6. shopkeeperess
  7. shopkeeperesses
  8. shopkeeperish
  9. shopkeeperism
  10. shopkeeperly
  11. shopkeepers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shopkeeperess (page history and authors); shopkeeper (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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