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单词 bookstore
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bookstoren.

Brit. /ˈbʊkstɔː/, U.S. /ˈbʊkˌstɔr/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: book n., store n.
Etymology: < book n. + store n. Compare bookshop n.
Chiefly U.S.
A bookshop.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling books
bookstore1760
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bookery1904
remainder shop1912
booketeria1921
1760 Pennsylvania Gaz. 4 Dec. The New Book Store..is this Day opened by James Rivington, Bookseller and Stationer, lately arrived from London.
1788 Massachusetts Spy 3 Apr. 4 Printed at Worcester (Massachusetts) by Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer. Sold at his Bookstore.
1819 W. Darby Tour N.Y. to Detroit i. 22 Bookstores afford..the best data, from which can be calculated the state of public literary improvement.
1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxiv. 430 There are none of his lame ducks, the he talks so much about, here, I know, for bookstores are not abundant.
1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 420/2 His bookstore in Boston.
1904 Critic (N.Y.) May 434 One bookstore sold four hundred copies a month.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xx/1 The paperback revolution is at work everywhere, but especially in college towns and in college bookstores.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 27 June 128/1 A painter and a Hungarian nanny meet in a bookstore when he catches her shoplifting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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