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View synonyms for shopkeeper

shopkeeper

[ shop-kee-per ]

noun

  1. a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.


shopkeeper

/ ˈʃɒpˌkiːpə /

noun

  1. a person who owns or manages a shop or small store
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈshopˌkeeping, noun
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Other Words From

  • shopkeeping noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shopkeeper1

First recorded in 1520–30; shop + keeper
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Example Sentences

Her father was a shopkeeper, at times selling deli food, at times dry goods or clothing.

Here there are artists, athletes, teachers, shopkeepers and laborers who only want to live a decent life in one of the oldest and greatest civilizations on earth.

From Time

“We’ll find out who the winners are,” the shopkeeper says, “when they quietly move away.”

Gold Spa never attracted much attention from its neighbors, shopkeepers said.

Mannar took a car to a local market and strolled around, polling the shopkeepers selling salt on where they got it.

“We were inside and heard a noise much louder than usual,” said one shopkeeper, who did not want to be identified.

The shopkeeper unlocked a door for us and we went down a narrow spiral staircase to a communal hole in the wall.

Then Sheriff Onstad got a call: a country shopkeeper had found in his till a check from Nichols.

I have been a shopkeeper since I was 21, I have worked in a shop since I was 15.

“We get airstrikes every two or three days, depending on the weather,” says Abdul, a shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper and his wife, drawn two ways by pity and self-interest, began by lulling their consciences with words.

That class is the mercantile, or rather shopkeeper class; and with them the money power is all powerful.

I go to leave an empty basket at the door, and the lantern that the Shopkeeper set in the hand of the pedlar.

And now a shopkeeper has filled his window with royal Stuart tartans, and I am instantly a Jacobite.

It is delightful to hear them talk,—so different from an English shopkeeper.

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