Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that sells books, especially the owner of a bookstore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who carries on the business of selling books.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who sells books.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person engaged in the
business ofselling books . - noun A business that sells books.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books
- noun the proprietor of a bookstore
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not that toiling as a bookseller is anyway to get rich quick.
Audio Interview with Antiquarian Book Dealer Robert Rulon-Miller, by Nigel Beale 2009
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I haven't met all the booksellers in the world, but I am kinda going with the hypothesis that the difference between a real bookseller and a collector masquerading as a bookseller is the quality of their personal collection.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Not that toiling as a bookseller is anyway to get rich quick.
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I haven't met all the booksellers in the world, but I am kinda going with the hypothesis that the difference between a real bookseller and a collector masquerading as a bookseller is the quality of their personal collection.
wet apples 2009
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By the very nature of his calling the bookseller is a man of reading and culture; now and then among them you find a man of rare culture.
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She kept what she called a bookseller's shop as well as the post-office; but the supply of books corresponded exactly to the lack of demand for them, and her chief trade was in nicknacks, from marbles and money-boxes up to concertinas.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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She kept what she called a bookseller's shop as well as the post-office; but the supply of books corresponded exactly to the lack of demand for them, and her chief trade was in nick-nacks, from marbles and money-boxes up to concertinas.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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This weekend found me not on the water or throwing bumpers for the dogs but killing time at yet another national chain bookseller waiting on my wife's flight to arrive in Oklahoma City.
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This weekend found me not on the water or throwing bumpers for the dogs but killing time at yet another national chain bookseller waiting on my wife's flight to arrive in Oklahoma City.
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And this morning, the Detroit Free Press notes that the bookseller is facing being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
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