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bookstore

[ book-stawr, -stohr ]

noun

  1. a store where books are sold.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bookstore1

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65; book + store
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Example Sentences

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He has been Joe Goldberg, the well-read manager of a New York City bookstore.

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“I yearn to be banned again,” said Waters, lamenting that his books are by the front door of bookstores rather than “by the true crime near the bathroom or the gay section in the back.”

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I picked up “The Hunger Games” on a whim when it was still a single copy spine-out at the bookstore, knowing nothing about it other than that it had a curious title.

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Along her journey, she has appeared on Good Morning America and CBS Mornings as well doing a book signing and Q&A at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in the city.

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Grant was running the Los Angeles chapter of the Free Black Women’s Library — and accumulating hundreds of books — when a GoFundMe campaign gave her the capital to open a physical bookstore.

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