Other forms: bookstores
A bookstore is a shop that sells books. An independent bookstore, browse the bookstore, the bookstore closed.
It is the American word; Britain says bookshop. The independent kind survived the chains and then the internet by becoming a place to be in rather than a place to buy from.
1nounbookstoreA shop that sells books.
“I spent the afternoon browsing in a little bookstore near the university.”
bookstore is a shop.
Also accepted in games: book store
Book plus store, American English from the early nineteenth century.
From book + store.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA