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bookseller

American  
[book-sel-er] / ˈbʊkˌsɛl ər /

noun

  1. the owner or proprietor of a bookstore.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of bookseller

First recorded in 1520–30; book + seller

Example Sentences

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Daunt told The Times that the wave of backlash is based on misinterpretations of what he said, and that only a “highly edited version” of what the bookseller “actually said” had been aired.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Barnes & Noble was turning a page on the chain’s history of declining sales, but recent comments have stirred bad blood for the bookseller.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Along the way, as the cloud business progressed from a side project to a major part of Amazon’s business, companies stopped asking why they should turn their computing needs over to a bookseller.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

However, the bookseller was not aware that Tim was also in the industry.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

So with passion and perseverance, he spends day after day filling pages of notebooks made of old Dutch paper like the one he bought from the bookseller in Brussels.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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