bookstore
nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈbʊkstɔː//
A store where books are bought and sold.
noun
- 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.
- 2
A stationery store.
Etymology
From book + store.
Forms
- plural
- bookstores
bookie · A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes…booking · The act or process of writing something down in a book or…books · Accounting records.
bookstore · A store where books are bought and sold.
boom · To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.Boom · A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the…boomer · Something that makes a booming sound.