bookshop

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A shop that sells books.

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noun

A shop that sells books.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bookshop.

noun

A shop that sells books.

Example sentences

I learned all of this when a friend was showing me HomeBase at the bookshop he worked at...

He's an English bloke who runs a 2nd hand bookshop out of an apartment.

When I went to the bookshop there where two books, K&R and a Byte book on C.

We can all be sad that a bookshop is closing, but the real culprit was a lack of sales and marketing savvy, and a lack of customer interest in the product/experience being offered.

Small anecdote: I was living in Taiwan in 1999 and found an English translation of Pinball, 1973 in a bookshop there.

The environment of a bookshop invites smalltalk around titles and lookers.

Curiously, this is the first one I read - the premise sounded interesting when reading the back in an airport bookshop.

Someone with loads of shelf-space in my local bookshop?

You went to the bookshop and bought the volume.

We have just returned to the UK after three years in a small country that had hardly a bookshop, where we've been relying on ebooks.

So I was amazed to come across it on open sale in a state-run bookshop, in Yanji 延吉 on the North Korean border in fact.

Personally I don't really contribute to either...visiting a bookshop for me is more of an independent, spiritual type of activity similar to the way many people think of gardening.

Quote examples

In the mid-nineties, I discovered "Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge" by chance in a discount bookshop.

It was announced yesterday that Whitcoulls, Auckland's foremost bookseller, would vacate its flagship store." [1] That leaves one small bookshop in the CBD of a 1.5m population city.

During my last trip back to my home town, Auckland New Zealand, I discovered there was only one "large" bookshop left and it had reduced its sales area to a single floor so calling it "large" was pushing it.

I'd lump London and Buenos Aires firmly in the same category (along with the other cities from the top end of the list) as "cities with a lot of bookshops for their size." Now, once you get to those places with a single small bookshop for an entire city...