noun
Meaning 1
A retail sales company or salesman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
retailer
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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General-American: /ˈɹiteɪlɚ/
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CMU ARPABET: R IY1 T EY2 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a merchant who sells goods at retail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: retail merchant
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: distributor, distributer, merchant, merchandiser
Narrower terms: chandler, licensee
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English retail Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English retailer From retail + -er.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: търговец на дребно (tǎrgovec na drebno) — retail sales company or salesman
- Chinese Mandarin: 零售商 (língshòushāng) — retail sales company or salesman
- Czech: maloobchodník — retail sales company or salesman
- Dutch: middenstander — retail sales company or salesman
- Finnish: jälleenmyyjä — retail sales company or salesman
- French: revendeur — retail sales company or salesman
- French: distributeur — retail sales company or salesman
- French: commerçant — retail sales company or salesman
- German: Einzelhändler — retail sales company or salesman
- German: Händler — retail sales company or salesman
- German: Verkäufer — retail sales company or salesman
- German: Ladenbesitzer — retail sales company or salesman
- Hindi: खुदरा (khudrā) — retail sales company or salesman
- Ido: endetalisto — retail sales company or salesman
- Ido: endetalvendisto — retail sales company or salesman
- Irish: miondíoltóir — retail sales company or salesman
- Italian: rivenditore — retail sales company or salesman
- Japanese: 小売商人 (kōrishōnin) — retail sales company or salesman
- Latin: propōla — retail sales company or salesman
- Māori: kaihoko whakamutunga — retail sales company or salesman
- Norwegian Bokmål: detaljist — retail sales company or salesman
- Norwegian Nynorsk: detaljist — retail sales company or salesman
- Polish: detalista — retail sales company or salesman
- Polish: detalistka — retail sales company or salesman
- Portuguese: varejista — retail sales company or salesman
- Romanian: vânzător cu amănuntul — retail sales company or salesman
- Romanian: vânzător cu bucata — retail sales company or salesman
- Romanian: vînzător detaliist — retail sales company or salesman
- Russian: ро́зничный торго́вец (rózničnyj torgóvec) — retail sales company or salesman
- Russian: рите́йлер (ritɛ́jler) — retail sales company or salesman
- Spanish: minorista — retail sales company or salesman
- Spanish: detal — retail sales company or salesman
- Spanish: comerciante minorista — retail sales company or salesman
- Spanish: tienda minorista — retail sales company or salesman
- Swedish: detaljist — retail sales company or salesman
- Swedish: detaljhandlare — retail sales company or salesman
- Swedish: minuthandlare — retail sales company or salesman
- Tagalog: magtitingi — retail sales company or salesman
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