Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A retail trader; a shopkeeper; also, a salesman in a shop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A shopkeeper; a retailer.
  • noun One who serves in a shop; a salesman.
  • noun One who works in a shop or a factory.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The proprietor, manager, or operator of a small store.

Etymologies

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shop + man

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Examples

  • So she called the shopman to her, and asked him in French whether he could not take eight hundred francs for the bracelet.

    Rollo in Geneva Jacob Abbott 1841

  • The shopman was a red-haired Jew, an extraordinary disagreeable man, who used to fall into furious rages at the sight of a client.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • He calls the shopman “Sir,” and makes no struggle against his native accent.

    Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

  • What would it avail him, in the present instance, to call the shopman to witness?

    A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880

  • Alas! "sighed he," I know one in which all is stately; but there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop.

    Andersen's Fairy Tales 1840

  • One kind of shopman was just like another to him -- which was oddly inconsequent on the part of

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • One kind of shopman was just like another to him -- which was oddly inconsequent on the part of

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • One kind of shopman was just like another to him -- which was oddly inconsequent on the part of

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • One kind of shopman was just like another to him -- which was oddly inconsequent on the part of

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • One kind of shopman was just like another to him -- which was oddly inconsequent on the part of

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

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