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bookshop

nounA2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,057 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: bookshops

A bookshop is a shop selling books, in British usage. A second-hand bookshop.

Americans say bookstore, and the two are otherwise identical. A good bookshop sells what the staff have read rather than only what is promoted.

Mihai Petre · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of bookshop

  1. 1nounbookshopA shop selling books, in British usage.A2+

    “The bookshop had been on the same corner since 1911.”

bookshop is a shop.

Where it comes from

Book plus shop, one of the plainest compounds in English.

From book + shop.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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bookshop in the wild

  • Tabitha Twitchit is a second-hand bookshop which opened in 2025 in a 17th-century stone building in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England.

    Tabitha Twitchit's Bookshop

  • In 2006, the bookshop received the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award from the Publishing Triangle.

    Oscar Wilde Bookshop

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.