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bestseller

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A book or other product that has sold in large numbers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a book that has had a large and rapid sale

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: best seller

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: trade book, trade edition

History

Etymology

From best + seller.

Across languages

Translations

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أَكْثَر رَوَاجًا (ʔakṯar rawājan) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Arabic: أَكْثَر مَبِيعًا (ʔakṯar mabīʕan) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Armenian: բեսթսելեր (bestʻseler) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Catalan: best-seller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Chinese Mandarin: 暢銷書 /畅销书 (chàngxiāoshū) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Chinese Mandarin: 熱門書籍 /热门书籍 (rèmén shūjí) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Czech: bestseller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Danish: bestseller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Dutch: bestseller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Dutch: succesboek — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Esperanto: furorlibro — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Faroese: metsølubók — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Finnish: bestselleri — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Finnish: menestyskirja — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Finnish: menestystuote — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • French: bestseller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Galician: superventas — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Georgian: ბესტსელერი (besṭseleri) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Georgian: ყველაზე გაყიდვადი (q̇velaze gaq̇idvadi) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Georgian: საუკეთესოდ გაყიდვადი (sauḳetesod gaq̇idvadi) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • German: Bestseller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Greek: ευπώλητο (efpólito) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Hungarian: könyvsiker — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Indonesian: pelarap — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Indonesian: terlaris — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Japanese: ベストセラー (besutoserā) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Korean: 베스트셀러 (beseuteuselleo) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Latvian: dižpārdoklis — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Lithuanian: bestseleris — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bestselger — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bestseljar — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Polish: bestseller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Portuguese: best-seller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Russian: бестсе́ллер (bɛstsɛ́ller) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Spanish: superventas — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Spanish: bestseller — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Swedish: storsäljare — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Swedish: bästsäljare — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Ukrainian: бестсе́лер (bestséler) — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Vietnamese: hàng bán chạy nhất — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Welsh: gwerthwr gorau — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Welsh: archwerthwr — book or thing sold in large numbers
  • Welsh: llyfr llwyddiannus — book or thing sold in large numbers
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