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

Derived Forms

• ˈshopˌkeeping, noun

Other Words From

• shopkeeping noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopkeeper¹

First recorded in 1520–30; shop + keeper

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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.”

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Post

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

From MIT Technology Review

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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