Standard Lemma guide

seller

name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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  • UK: /ˈsɛlə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈsɛlɚ/
  • US: sĕl-ər
  • rhymes with -ɛlə(ɹ)
  • homophone: cellar
  • homophone: sellar
  • CMU ARPABET: S EH1 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

An English and Scottish topographic surname, derived from any of several places named Sell.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

An English and Scottish occupational surname for a saddler, or for a person who sells things.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

An English and Scottish metonymic surname for someone who worked in a cellar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Alisha was a seller of fine books.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Something which sells.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Obsolete spelling of cellar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: merchant, merchandiser

Narrower terms: ticket agent, booking clerk, cosmetician, flower girl, fruiterer, huckster, cheap-jack, peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman, selling agent, dealer, underseller

History

Etymology

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell + -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell + -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).

Alternative forms.

Across languages

Translations

157 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: shitës — someone who sells
  • Albanian: shitëse — someone who sells
  • Southern Altai: садучы (sadučï) — someone who sells
  • Arabic: بَائِع (bāʔiʕ) — someone who sells
  • Arabic: بَائِعَة (bāʔiʕa) — someone who sells
  • Armenian: վաճառող (vačaṙoġ) — someone who sells
  • Azerbaijani: satıcı — someone who sells
  • Bashkir: һатыусы (hatıwsı) — someone who sells
  • Belarusian: прадаве́ц (pradavjéc) — someone who sells
  • Belarusian: прадаўшчы́ца (pradawščýca) — someone who sells
  • Belarusian: гандля́р (handljár) — someone who sells
  • Belarusian: гандля́рка (handljárka) — someone who sells
  • Bengali: বিক্রেতা (bikreta) — someone who sells
  • Bulgarian: продава́ч (prodaváč) — someone who sells
  • Bulgarian: продава́чка (prodaváčka) — someone who sells
  • Burmese: ရောင်းသူ (raung:su) — someone who sells
  • Catalan: venedor — someone who sells
  • Chinese Mandarin: 賣方 /卖方 (màifāng) — someone who sells
  • Chinese Mandarin: 賣主 /卖主 (màizhǔ) — someone who sells
  • Czech: prodavač — someone who sells
  • Czech: prodavačka — someone who sells
  • Czech: prodejce — someone who sells
  • Czech: prodejkyně — someone who sells
  • Czech: prodávající — someone who sells
  • Danish: sælger — someone who sells
  • Danish: sælgerinde — someone who sells
  • Danish: sælgerske — someone who sells
  • Danish: forsælger — someone who sells
  • Danish: forsælgerske — someone who sells
  • Dutch: verkoper — someone who sells
  • Dutch: verkoopster — someone who sells
  • Esperanto: vendisto — someone who sells
  • Esperanto: virvendisto — someone who sells
  • Esperanto: vendistiĉo — someone who sells
  • Esperanto: vendistino — someone who sells
  • Estonian: müüja — someone who sells
  • Finnish: myyjä — someone who sells
  • Finnish: kauppias — someone who sells
  • French: vendeur — someone who sells
  • French: vendeuse — someone who sells
  • Friulian: venditôr — someone who sells
  • Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli) — someone who sells
  • German: Verkäufer — someone who sells
  • German: Verkäuferin — someone who sells
  • Greek: πωλητής (politís) — someone who sells
  • Greek: πωλήτρια (polítria) — someone who sells
  • Ancient Greek: πωλητής (pōlētḗs) — someone who sells
  • Ancient Greek: πωλήτρια (pōlḗtria) — someone who sells
  • Ancient Greek: -πώλης (-pṓlēs) — someone who sells
  • Greenlandic: -erniaq — someone who sells
  • Hebrew: מוֹכֵר (mokhér) — someone who sells
  • Hebrew: מוֹכֶרֶת — someone who sells
  • Hindi: बेचने वाला (becne vālā) — someone who sells
  • Hindi: विक्रेता (vikretā) — someone who sells
  • Hungarian: eladó — someone who sells
  • Hungarian: árus — someone who sells
  • Ido: vendisto — someone who sells
  • Ido: vendistulo — someone who sells
  • Ido: vendistino — someone who sells
  • Indonesian: penjual — someone who sells
  • Ingrian: mööjä — someone who sells
  • Italian: venditore — someone who sells
  • Italian: venditrice — someone who sells
  • Japanese: 売り手 (urite) — someone who sells
  • Japanese: 販売者 (hanbaisha) — someone who sells
  • Kazakh: сатушы (satuşy) — someone who sells
  • Khmer: អ្នកលក់ (nĕək lŭək) — someone who sells
  • Korean: 판매인 (panmaein) — someone who sells
  • Korean: 파는 사람 (paneun saram) — someone who sells
  • Northern Kurdish: firoşkar — someone who sells
  • Northern Kurdish: firoşer — someone who sells
  • Kyrgyz: сатуучу (satuucu) — someone who sells
  • Lao: ຜູ້ຂາຍ (phū khāi) — someone who sells
  • Latin: vēnditor — someone who sells
  • Latin: vēnditrīx — someone who sells
  • Latvian: pārdevējs — someone who sells
  • Latvian: pārdevēja — someone who sells
  • Lithuanian: pardavėjas — someone who sells
  • Lithuanian: pardavėja — someone who sells
  • Macedonian: продавач (prodavač) — someone who sells
  • Macedonian: продавачка (prodavačka) — someone who sells
  • Malay: penjual — someone who sells
  • Malayalam: വ്യാപാരി (vyāpāri) — someone who sells
  • Malayalam: വിൽപ്പനക്കാരൻ (vilppanakkāraṉ) — someone who sells
  • Marathi: विक्रेता (vikretā) — someone who sells
  • Marathi: विकणारा (vikṇārā) — someone who sells
  • Marathi: विकणारी (vikṇārī) — someone who sells
  • Middle English: sellere — someone who sells
  • Mongolian: худалдагч (xudaldagč) — someone who sells
  • Norman: vendeux — someone who sells
  • Norman: vend'rêsse — someone who sells
  • Norwegian Bokmål: selger — someone who sells
  • Norwegian Bokmål: selgerinne — someone who sells
  • Norwegian Bokmål: forselger — someone who sells
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: seljar — someone who sells
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: seljarinne — someone who sells
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: forseljar — someone who sells
  • Occitan: vendeire — someone who sells
  • Occitan: vendeira — someone who sells
  • Pashto: بايع (bāye') — someone who sells
  • Pashto: خرڅوونکی (xarčawunkay) — someone who sells
  • Pashto: پرولونکی (prolunkay) — someone who sells
  • Iranian Persian: فُروشَنْدِه (forušande) — someone who sells
  • Iranian Persian: فُروخْتار (foruxtâr) — someone who sells
  • Iranian Persian: بائِع (bâ'e') — someone who sells
  • Polish: sprzedawca — someone who sells
  • Polish: sprzedawczyni — someone who sells
  • Portuguese: vendedor — someone who sells
  • Portuguese: vendedora — someone who sells
  • Romanian: vânzător — someone who sells
  • Romanian: vânzătoare — someone who sells
  • Russian: продаве́ц (prodavéc) — someone who sells
  • Russian: продавщи́ца (prodavščíca) — someone who sells
  • Russian: торго́вец (torgóvec) — someone who sells
  • Russian: торго́вка (torgóvka) — someone who sells
  • Russian: ве́ндор (véndor) — someone who sells
  • Russian: ве́ндор (vɛ́ndor) — someone who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: прода̀ва̄ч — someone who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: продава̀чица — someone who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: prodàvāč — someone who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: prodavàčica — someone who sells
  • Slovak: predavač — someone who sells
  • Slovak: predavačka — someone who sells
  • Slovak: predajca — someone who sells
  • Slovene: prodajalec — someone who sells
  • Slovene: prodajalka — someone who sells
  • Spanish: vendedor — someone who sells
  • Spanish: vendedora — someone who sells
  • Swahili: mwuzaji — someone who sells
  • Swedish: försäljare — someone who sells
  • Swedish: försäljerska — someone who sells
  • Swedish: säljare — someone who sells
  • Swedish: säljerska — someone who sells
  • Tagalog: tagapagbili — someone who sells
  • Tajik: фурӯшанда (furüšanda) — someone who sells
  • Tatar: сатучы (satuçı) — someone who sells
  • Thai: ผู้ขาย (pûu-kǎai) — someone who sells
  • Turkish: satıcı — someone who sells
  • Turkish: bayi — someone who sells
  • Ottoman Turkish: بایع (bayiʼ) — someone who sells
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاتیجی (satıcı) — someone who sells
  • Turkmen: satyjy — someone who sells
  • Ukrainian: продаве́ць (prodavécʹ) — someone who sells
  • Ukrainian: продавщи́ця (prodavščýcja) — someone who sells
  • Ukrainian: торго́вець (torhóvecʹ) — someone who sells
  • Urdu: بیچْنے والا (becne vālā) — someone who sells
  • Urdu: بائِع (bāi') — someone who sells
  • Uyghur: ساتقۇچى (satquchi) — someone who sells
  • Uzbek: sotuvchi — someone who sells
  • Vietnamese: người bán — someone who sells
  • Volapük: selan — someone who sells
  • Volapük: hiselan — someone who sells
  • Volapük: jiselan — someone who sells
  • Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער (farkoyfer) — someone who sells
  • Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿערין (farkoyferin) — someone who sells
  • Polish: produkt w sprzedaży — something which sells
  • Swedish: säljare — something which sells
Real reading context

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