bookstore

[ book-stawr, -stohr ]

noun

1. a store where books are sold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bookstore¹

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

Example Sentences

I said precisely that to Brooks and others in a small audience at Washington, DC’s Politics & Prose Bookstore on September 9, 1997, during a talk on my book Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream.

From Salon

We’ve put together a lush array of coffee-table books covering at least some of those interests, making your year-end gifting as easy as a trip to your favorite bookstore.

From Los Angeles Times

To this day, the question of how the press conference wound up where it did, a stone’s throw from Fantasy Island Adult Bookstore and the Delaware Valley Crematorium, remains one of the great mysteries of American history, along with the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa.

From Los Angeles Times

Sitting at the bottleneck where the 10 Freeway meets the 405, Becca asked me whether I had been to the Last Bookstore in downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times

The Last Bookstore proved more interesting for her in its vinyl collection than in its volume of volumes.

From Los Angeles Times