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bookstore
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a shop where books are sold [syn: bookshop , bookstall ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A store where books are bought and sold. n. A store where books are bought and sold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1763, from book (n.) + store (n.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookstore \Book"store`\, n. A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE available ▪ Lots of good books with advice on how to be an effective father are available at bookstores . ▪ The map, published by Reel Map Co., costs $ 6. 95 and is available in bookstores . ▪ These and many alternatives ...
Usage examples of bookstore.
Ted made periodic visits to this particular bookstore, where he routinely autographed however many copies of his backlist titles were in stock.
Darla McDaniels owns Bluebonnet Books, the only independent, full-service bookstore between Austin and San Antonio.
So, while you guys are drinking and carousing, I will be in the occult bookstore and scanning the shelves at the Botanica to get answers.
Negro businesspeople in Pittsburgh who owned a stationery and bookstore, a photography gallery, a loan company, a real estate company, and an insurance company.
Ann Cymba Quality Paperback edition ISBN 0-7433-0900-6 is available on line, or can be ordered in all major bookstores.
In the same mall was an outlet of Deseret Books, part of a Church-owned bookstore chain that sold only faith-promoting literature.
Mary wanted to take a quick look at the Laurentian University bookstore before they headed down to the portal.
His bookstore, at a central situation by the Park, with works of taste classically displayed, afforded an admirable lounge for the litterateurs of that day.
John Carter on Mars novels of the 1920s through the Captain Future epics of a couple of decades later, and on through the kind of highly commercial multivolume stuff that floods the bookstores today.
He looked, in the fluorescent lights of the bookstore, pastier than ever.
Accepting such an analysis sounds like the height of simplemindedness, and yet it is an analysis that you, and I, and both those who claim to love and those who claim to hate science fiction make, or at least accede to, every time we shop in a bookstore.
Chain bookstores are especially notorious, partly because of their business structure.
Many independent bookstores have developed systems to keep track of inventory, however.
Also, many independent bookstores loan employees books so that the employees can read and recommend things.
A book can be nonpromoted, treated with indifference by the publisher and therefore found in no bookstores, and sell no more than a few hundred copies.