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View synonyms for shopkeeper

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


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Derived Forms

  • ˈshopˌkeeping, noun

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Other Words From

  • shopkeeping noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of shopkeeper1

First recorded in 1520–30; shop + keeper

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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