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 smallstore .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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The shopman was a red-haired Jew, an extraordinary disagreeable man, who used to fall into furious rages at the sight of a client.
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He calls the shopman “Sir,” and makes no struggle against his native accent.
Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903
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What would it avail him, in the present instance, to call the shopman to witness?
A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880
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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.
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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
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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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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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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
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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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