TOBACCONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tobacconist mean? 

• TOBACCONIST (noun)
  The noun TOBACCONIST has 2 senses:

1. a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles

2. a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes

  Familiarity information: TOBACCONIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOBACCONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

market keeper; shopkeeper; storekeeper; tradesman (a merchant who owns or manages a shop)

Derivation:

tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tobacco shop; tobacconist; tobacconist shop

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

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

Derivation:

tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)

 Context examples 

There is Mortimer’s, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane’s carriage-building depot.

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

A nice old briar with a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber.

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