What does bookseller mean?
Definitions for bookseller
ˈbʊkˌsɛl ərbook·sell·er
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Princeton's WordNet
booksellernoun
the proprietor of a bookstore
Wiktionary
booksellernoun
A person engaged in the business of selling books.
booksellernoun
A business that sells books.
Etymology: From book + seller.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Booksellernoun
He whose profession it is to sell books.
Etymology: from book and sell.
He went to the bookseller, and told him in anger, he had sold a book in which there was false divinity. Izaak Walton, Life of Bishop Saunderson.
Wikipedia
bookseller
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers.
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bookseller
A bookseller is an individual or business entity that engages in the buying and selling of books. This involves dealing both in new and used books and can take place in a physical store, at a book fair, online, or through mail-order catalogs. They may cater to general readers or specialize in a specific genre or type of books such as textbooks, rare books, or children's books.
Webster Dictionary
Booksellernoun
one who sells books
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bookseller in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bookseller in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of bookseller in a Sentence
I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
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Translations for bookseller
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- بائع كتبArabic
- llibreter, llibreteraCatalan, Valencian
- knihkupecCzech
- Buchverkäuferin, Buchhändlerin, Buchhändler, BuchverkäuferGerman
- librera, libreroSpanish
- kirjakauppa, kirjamyyjäFinnish
- libraireFrench
- díoltóir leabharIrish
- libraio, libraiaItalian
- bibliopolaLatin
- bokhandlerNorwegian
- boekhandelaarDutch
- bokhandlarNorwegian Nynorsk
- bokhandel, BokhandlerenNorwegian
- księgarz, księgarnia, bukinistaPolish
- livraria, livreiroPortuguese
- книготорговец, букинист, книжный магазин, [[продавец]] [[книга, книготорговляRussian
- kníhkupecSlovak
- books, bokhandel, bokhandlare, boklådaSwedish
- kitapçıTurkish
- bukihiselan, bukijiselan, bukiselanVolapük
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