noun
Meaning 1
A person engaged in the business of selling books.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bookseller
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈbʊksɛlɚ/
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noun
Meaning 2
A business that sells books.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the proprietor of a bookstore
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: owner, proprietor
History
Etymology
From Middle English boksellere, bok-sillere, equivalent to book + seller.
Across languages
Translations
73 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كتابى — person
- Arabic: كتبي sg or — person
- Armenian: գրավաճառ (gravačaṙ) — person
- Armenian: բուկինիստ (bukinist) — person
- Asturian: llibreru — person
- Belarusian: букіні́ст (bukiníst) — person
- Catalan: llibreter — person
- Catalan: llibretera — person
- Catalan: llibrer — person
- Chinese Mandarin: 賣書者 /卖书者 (màishūzhě) — person
- Czech: knihkupec — person
- Danish: boghandler — person
- Finnish: kirjakauppias — person
- Finnish: kirjamyyjä — person
- French: libraire — person
- French: bouquiniste — person
- Friulian: librâr — person
- Galician: libreiro — person
- German: Buchhändler — person
- German: Buchhändlerin — person
- German: Buchverkäufer — person
- German: Buchverkäuferin — person
- Ancient Greek: βιβλιοπώλης (bibliopṓlēs) — person
- Hungarian: könyvárus — person
- Ido: libristo — person
- Ido: librovendisto — person
- Italian: libraio — person
- Italian: libraia — person
- Latin: librārius — person
- Latin: bibliopola — person
- Lithuanian: knygų pardavėjas — person
- Lithuanian: knygininkas — person
- Norwegian Bokmål: bokhandler — person
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bokhandlar — person
- Occitan: librari — person
- Polish: księgarz — person
- Polish: bukinista — person
- Portuguese: livreiro — person
- Romanian: librar — person
- Russian: книготорго́вец (knigotorgóvec) — person
- Russian: продаве́ц книг (prodavéc knig) — person
- Russian: букини́ст (bukiníst) — person
- Serbo-Croatian: knjižar — person
- Sicilian: libbraru — person
- Slovak: kníhkupec — person
- Spanish: librero — person
- Spanish: librera — person
- Swedish: bokhandlare — person
- Turkish: kitapçı — person
- Ottoman Turkish: كتابجی (kitabcı) — person
- Ukrainian: книгопродаве́ць (knyhoprodavécʹ) — person
- Ukrainian: букіні́ст (bukiníst) — person
- Venetan: łibrer — person
- Venetan: librer — person
- Venetan: librar — person
- Volapük: bukiselan — person
- Volapük: bukihiselan — person
- Volapük: bukijiselan — person
- Yoruba: atàwé — person
- Yoruba: tàwé-tàwé — person
- Chinese Mandarin: 書商 /书商 (shūshāng) — business
- Danish: boghandel — business
- Finnish: kirjakauppa — business
- Ancient Greek: βιβλιοπωλεῖον (bibliopōleîon) — business
- Lithuanian: knygynas — business
- Norwegian: bokhandel — business
- Polish: księgarnia — business
- Portuguese: livraria — business
- Russian: книготорго́вля (knigotorgóvlja) — business
- Russian: кни́жный магази́н (knížnyj magazín) — business
- Swedish: bokhandel — business
- Swedish: boklåda — business
- Turkish: kitapçı — business
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