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STATIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stationer mean? 

STATIONER (noun)
  The noun STATIONER has 1 sense:

1. a merchant who sells writing materials and office suppliesplay

  Familiarity information: STATIONER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STATIONER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

stationer; stationery seller

Hypernyms ("stationer" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)


 Context examples 


Why should a perfectly honest man—well, well, here’s a large stationer’s.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a stationer's shop in Pall Mall, where I had business.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The idea of those Devonshire girls, among the dry law-stationers and the attorneys' offices; and of the tea and toast, and children's songs, in that grim atmosphere of pounce and parchment, red-tape, dusty wafers, ink-jars, brief and draft paper, law reports, writs, declarations, and bills of costs; seemed almost as pleasantly fanciful as if I had dreamed that the Sultan's famous family had been admitted on the roll of attorneys, and had brought the talking bird, the singing tree, and the golden water into Gray's Inn Hall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There were only four stationers of any consequences in the town, and at each Holmes produced his pencil chips, and bid high for a duplicate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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