Other forms: shopping, shops, shopped
A shop is a place where things are sold. The corner shop, a shoe shop, the shops are shut. It is the British word; American English says store, and both are understood everywhere.
The verb means to buy things — go shopping, shop online, shop around for a better price. Note that shop as a verb takes no object in that sense: you shop, and you buy the thing. There is a second British sense that is pure slang: to shop somebody is to report them to the police. And a shop is also a workshop, which is where shop floor, machine shop and the school subject shop class come from.
1nounshopA place where goods are sold.
“There is a shop at the end of the road that sells everything.”
synonyms: store, outlet
2verbbuyTo buy things.
“They shop online for almost everything now.”
3nounrepairedA place where things are made or repaired.
“The car is in the shop until Thursday.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
shop is a place of selling.
Also accepted in games: store
Old English sceoppa meant a booth or a shed — a small structure rather than a building. The German cognate Schuppen still means a shed, and the English word grew from a stall at a market into a building with a door.
Middle English
schoppe
English, today
shop
Built from
From Middle English schoppe. From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic skupp-, skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European skub-, skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“shed”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA