Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that sells books, especially the owner of a bookstore.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person who carries on the business of selling books.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who sells books.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books
- n. the proprietor of a bookstore
Etymologies
- From book + seller. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Not that toiling as a bookseller is anyway to get rich quick.”
Audio Interview with Antiquarian Book Dealer Robert Rulon-Miller, by Nigel Beale
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And this morning, the Detroit Free Press notes that the bookseller is facing being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.”
“Sounds lame but it's a good gift item, as a bookseller is too cheap to buy that many at once for themselves.”
“The world of the bookseller is changing at an unprecedented rate as a host of pressures transform and distort the traditional model, but the need to sell books well remains a constant.”
“Another AbeBooks bookseller is profiled by a local newspaper today – this time it is Vic Linoff who runs the Those Were The Days!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bookseller’.
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
bookkeeping, book, audio book, Booker T. Washington, Booker T. & the M..., book club, bookie, bookseller, bookshelf, bookworm, bookmaker, book learning and 132 more...
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book phrases and words
having a look at book
book agent, book-answerer, book-astronomer, book-auction, book-auctioneer, book-bearer, book-birth, book-board, book-borrower, book-bosomed, book-bound, book-box and 264 more...
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occupations
actor, actress, archaelogist, soldier, cook, lawyer, gardener, grocr, bank official, barman, barmaid, baber and 50 more...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson
These are words from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversatio...
Samuel Johnson, LL. D., panegyrist, gentleman, esquire, bookseller, stationer, yeomanry, a general sensati..., farrago, animadversion
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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