Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A store where books are sold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A store or shop where books are sold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
store wherebooks are bought and sold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shop where books are sold
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I live in a city where the bookstore is a five minute walk away.
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This answer tends to cause headscratching among both camps, so I often append the following: Any book that gets petulant teenagers to willingly enter a bookstore is a book I love.
Why we should all say thank you to Stephanie Meyer and J.K. Rowling « 2009
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OK, not an event, unless hitting the bookstore is an event (for me it is!), but the Chicago Foundation for Women is Women & Children First's organization of the month.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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OK, not an event, unless hitting the bookstore is an event (for me it is!), but the Chicago Foundation for Women is Women & Children First's organization of the month.
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You can be pretty sure that the book buyer in a large chain or indie bookstore is someone of your race.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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I dream of bookstores owned my Mom and Pop and imagine their type of bookstore is what pure magic is made of.
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I was perusing the outdoors section of a large chain bookstore not long ago and I was struck by something that perhaps some of you have also noticed: hunting books are disappearing.
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Granted, I don't visit it as often as I should, opting for its smaller but more convenient local offshoot in my city, but walking through (and conveniently getting lost inside) the city block-sized bookstore is nothing short of awesome.
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I mean, I can find these titles on the shelves of a chain bookstore in West Virginia.
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Books not being where they are supposed to be in a bookstore is because a bookstore can often get disorganized.
[Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010
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