stationer

[ stey-shuh-ner ]

/ ˈsteɪ ʃə nər /

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noun

a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.

Archaic.

a bookseller.
a publisher.

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Origin of stationer

1350–1400; Middle English stacio(u)ner<Medieval Latin statiōnārius, noun use of the adj.: stationary, i.e., pertaining to dealers with permanent shops as distinguished from itinerant vendors

Words nearby stationer

stationary orbit, stationary point, stationary state, stationary wave, station break, stationer, Stationers' Company, stationery, Stationery Office, station house, stationmaster

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How to use stationer in a sentence

The stationer used to wonder how they could get through so much.
Emily Bront|A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
My wife's brother, Mr. Christopher Plaskwith, is a bookseller and stationer with pretty practice, in R——.
Night and Morning, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It was lying on the table in that condition when, in a luckless moment, a stationer in the neighbourhood of Wynnstay came in.
Prices of Books|Henry B. Wheatley
Very small and shrunken did she look when he took her out at the door leading to rooms over a stationer's shop.
Magnum Bonum|Charlotte M. Yonge

The upturned ends are fastened in place by using the ordinary thumb tacks that can be procured at any stationer's.
Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects|C. V. Riley

British Dictionary definitions for stationer

stationer

/ (ˈsteɪʃənə) /

noun

a person who sells stationery or a shop where stationery is sold

obsolete a publisher or bookseller

Word Origin for stationer

C14: from Medieval Latin stationarius a person having a regular station, hence a shopkeeper (esp a bookseller) as distinguished from an itinerant tradesman; see station

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