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bookstore

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbʊkstɔː//

A store where books are bought and sold.

noun

  1. 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. 2

    A stationery store.

Etymology

From book + store.

Forms

plural
bookstores
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).