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storekeeper

storekeeper noun: one who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.

Noun

storekeeper (plural storekeepers)

  1. One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.
    • When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. One who is in charge of stores or goods of any kind.
    • a naval storekeeper
  3. (US, colloquial, dated) Any unsaleable item.

storekeeper meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Sanskrit

storekeeper in Hindi

storekeeper
कोठारी koṭhārī

storekeeper in Bengali

person who runs a shop
দোকানদার dōkanodar, তহরি tohori, দোকানী dokanī

storekeeper in Gujarati

storekeeper
કોઠારી koṭhārī

storekeeper in Sanskrit

person who runs a shop
कोष्ठागारिक koṣṭhāgārika

Synonyms of storekeeper

Forms of storekeeper

pluralstorekeepers

Origin of storekeeper

From store + keeper.

Questions about storekeeper

What does storekeeper mean?
Storekeeper means one who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.
What is storekeeper in Hindi?
Storekeeper in Hindi is कोठारी (koṭhārī). See Storekeeper meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is storekeeper?
Storekeeper is a noun.
What is the plural of storekeeper?
The plural of storekeeper is storekeepers.

Words near storekeeper in the dictionary

  1. storehouseman
  2. storehousemen
  3. storehouses
  4. storehousing
  5. storekeep
  6. storekeeper
  7. storekeepers
  8. storekeeping
  9. storekeeps
  10. Storekvina
  11. storeless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: storekeeper (page history and authors); कोठारी (Hindi) (page history and authors); કોઠારી (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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