Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A peddler.
- n. Archaic A dealer or merchant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A merchant; a trader; a dealer.
- n. An itinerant merchant; a peddler.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
- n. A peddler; a hawker.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)
- n. archaic term for an itinerant peddler
Etymologies
- From Old English cēapmann ("dealer") (cognate with synonymous German Kaufmann, Middle Low German kopman, Swedish köpman), from cēap ("barter, business, dealing") (whence also cheap) and mann ("man"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English cēapman : cēap, trade; see cheap + man, mann, man; see man. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Saxon word chapman means a chapman, marketman, merchant, monger or cheapner.”
“The "chapman" of the town was the step-father of Cole, the Oxford proctor: to this person, whose name was Master Wilkyns, the proctor had written a special letter, in addition to the commissary's circular; and the family connection acting as”
“VOTE JOE SESTAK ... the real Democrat in the race sonny chapman”
Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics
“Then we would know who they are and they would pay taxes and many would go back home when the season is over? sonny chapman”
“To just say NO, is a political game that proves the Republican Party is the Grand Obstructionist Party. sonny chapman”
“NO NO NO will be their reply, as always sonny chapman”
“They would probably accomplish about as much as the SEC employees in terms of legitimate work, and at least if we caught them on a site such as BannanaParty. com it would just be an honest mistake. sonny chapman”
“C'mon GOP ... think of something CONSTRUCTIVE for once sonny chapman”
GOP Attorney General uses health care lawsuit in campaign ad
“The current bunch of republican fools are completely delusional. sonny chapman”
“It's an interesting comment on his career as a whole. sonny chapman”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chapman’.
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Last Names That Are Professions
Let's keep this to reasonably well known family names that are or used to be professions, trades, or arts.
fletcher, chandler, goldsmith, carpenter, cook, baker, draper, smith, mason, carter, cooper, mercer and 35 more...
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Defunct professions
Economists like to cite "buggy whip maker" as an example of a profession whose career prospects were dimmed, and ultimately quenched, by the inexorable march of technological progress. This is a li...
buggy whip maker, guillemot egg col..., bog iron hunter, nettle string maker, fuller, purple maker, tanner, gut girl, reddleman, wont catcher, navvy, ratcatcher and 239 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
yeoman, summoner, chandler, ostler, carter, chapman, slaver, mason, cordwainer, cooper, glazier, dyer and 187 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of ...
Words I met while reading Cervantes' story.
lance, hale, lanthorn-jaws, knight-errantry, nay, expostulate, puling, massy, agreeable delusions, pasteboard, bestrid, sallied and 148 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "A chapman at a standard hatstand can hawk panama hats, canvas caps and tartan tams."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 20 May 19, 2010