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BOOKSELLER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bookseller mean?
• BOOKSELLER (noun)
The noun BOOKSELLER has 1 sense:
1. the proprietor of a bookstore
Familiarity information: BOOKSELLER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The proprietor of a bookstore
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bookseller" is a kind of...):
owner; proprietor ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business)
Context examples
That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
What a happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print-shops!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I remember the awe with which one day in Thomas Street, Portsmouth, I saw a print of the great Corsican in a bookseller’s window.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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