bookshop

noun

book·​shop ˈbu̇k-ˌshäp How to pronounce bookshop (audio)

Examples of bookshop in a Sentence

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The Yankee Bookshop A small town can’t have a quaint main street without a cute bookshop. Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025 Today, Kepler’s Books is a bustling brick-and-mortar bookshop, while the Kepler’s Literary Foundation brings authors into local underresourced schools and maintains a calendar crammed with upcoming author talks, book club discussions and workshops. Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025 Seen in a bookshop reminiscent of the one Humphrey Bogart’s character visits in another John Huston classic, The Big Sleep, the statuette was designed by Fred Sexton for The Maltese Falcon. Jay Glennie, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025 In this case, the bookshop is bound by outdated rules about what it is allowed to sell—only books from the previous century. Susan Coll september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bookshop

Word History

First Known Use

1765, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bookshop was in 1765

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“Bookshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bookshop. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

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