Definition of Bookshop

1. Noun. A shop where books are sold.

Exact synonyms: Bookstall, Bookstore
Generic synonyms: Shop, Store

Definition of Bookshop

1. n. A bookseller's shop.

Definition of Bookshop

1. Noun. A shop which sells books. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bookshop

1. a store where books are sold [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookshop

bookplates
bookrack
bookracks
bookrest
bookrests
bookroom
bookrooms
books
bookseller
booksellers
bookselling
booksellings
booksful
bookshelf
bookshelves
bookshop (current term)
bookshops
booksie
booksier
booksiest
bookstaff
bookstaffs
bookstall
bookstalls
bookstand
bookstands
bookstave
bookstaves
bookstore
bookstores

Literary usage of Bookshop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"1811 Enters bookshop as clerk. — Devotes leisure to painting. — Leaves shop. — Letter to his brothers on appointments at Yale. ..."

2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"... Fifth Avenue and 2710 Street The Drama bookshop, 7 East 4ad Street The Sunwise Turn, 53 East 44th Street The Washington Square bookshop, ..."

3. Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1870)
"Davies and his bookshop. — Pretty Mrs. Da- vies. —Foote and his Projects. — Criticism of the Cudgel. jN his new lodgings in Wine-Office Court, ..."

4. A Bookman's Budget by Austin Dobson (1917)
"A FRENCH bookshop THERE is a graceful illustration to Corneille's five-act comedy of La Galerie du Palais, which gives a good idea of a French bookshop in ..."

5. A Magnificent Farce: And Other Diversions of a Book-collector by Alfred Edward Newton (1921)
"... IS THE MATTER WITH THE bookshop? SOME time ago my friend Mr. William Harris Arnold told me that he had written a paper on the welfare of the bookstore. ..."

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