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bookstore

[ book-stawr, -stohr ]

noun

  1. a store where books are sold.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bookstore1

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65; book + store
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Example Sentences

Eight of these 10 selections will already be on bookstore shelves by the time you read this, which means you’ll be ready to spend the entire month reading.

We’d go to a special bookstore for science and philosophy books.

Shortly after I came to Washington in the 1970s, I wandered into a bookstore and happened upon a shopworn copy of “The Letters of Oscar Wilde,” edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.

Busboys and Poets, a combined restaurant, bar, bookstore, and coffee shop with several locations around the city, offers several options for LGBTQ-specific merchandise.

Just call up a local bookstore near your giftee’s address and have them put aside a copy of one of the books below.

What it did not resemble was any other bookstore in the nation.

The bookstore was opened as a way of presenting Italian books and culture to Manhattanites.

The Rizzoli in New York City was no ordinary bookstore in its seventies heyday.

Anti-Korean publications are sold at every bookstore in Japan.

But now I see them as the giant vampire squid, the enemy of the independent bookstore.

Mr. Johnson, the bookstore man, sold more Bibles the next month after the revival than he had in the whole previous year.

Tempted into Gaine's bookstore by the display of volumes, he chanced upon a friend who called him by name.

Bakka is the oldest science fiction bookstore in the world, and it made me the mutant I am today.

Powell's is the largest bookstore in the world, an endless, multi-storey universe of papery smells and towering shelves.

They have tons of events for kids and one of the most inviting atmospheres I've ever experienced at a bookstore.

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