stationer

American  

[stey-shuh-ner] / ˈsteɪ ʃə nər /

noun

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

2. Archaic.

   1. a bookseller.

   2. a publisher.

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stationer British  

/ ˈsteɪʃənə /

noun

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

2. obsolete a publisher or bookseller

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Etymology

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

Example Sentences

‘Half-quire of paper for a penny,’ bellows the street stationer.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2017

The notebook is leather-bound; a label on it gives the name of a Fifth Avenue bookseller and stationer now long gone.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

Small hard-covered volumes, bound with thread and taped up the side, most of them from an old French stationer, their plasticized glossy lapis blue or turquoise covers shrank and shriveled.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2011

WH Smith - newsagent, stationer, bookseller and sometime general retailer - has played a key role in British shoppers' lives for decades.

From BBC • May 28, 2010

Under the board were some sheets of newsprint I had saved, the lead piece from the statue of King George, my seeds, and the book given me by the stationer.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson