Definition of Best seller

1. Noun. A book that has had a large and rapid sale.

Exact synonyms: Bestseller
Generic synonyms: Trade Book, Trade Edition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Best Seller

best evidence rule
best friend
best friend forever
best friends
best laid plans
best man
best men
best of
best of all
best of both worlds
best of breed
best of the bunch
best off
best practice
best regards
best seller (current term)
best thing since sliced bread
best thing since sliced pan
bestad
bestadde
bestain
bestained
bestains
bestand
bestar
bestarred
bestarring
bestars
bestatin
bestay

Literary usage of Best seller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1911)
"Obviously being a "best seller" does not make a book literature. ... Fifteen years after Victor Hugo's Les Miserables was the "best seller" of its day, ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... the best seller that the whole country is chuckling over. You are safe in pushing this novel because everyone loves Lincoln and this story, ..."

3. The Secret Book by Edmund Lester Pearson (1914)
"CHAPTER XI How TO WRITE A "BEST-SELLER" The night the Club met at Bronson's I was the last to arrive. As I came in, two or three of the men hailed me with a ..."

4. City Types: A Book of Monologues Sketching the City Woman by Marian Bowlan (1916)
"... THE best seller CHARACTER: MATTIE McBEAN, seasoned saleswoman of fable and fancy. SCENE—Third table between the rubber plant and the paper napkin stand ..."

5. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1914)
"Now, if we could be sure that the six volumes that make up the current year's "best seller" list really were a measure of the average standard of taste in ..."

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