Definition of Bookseller

1. Noun. The proprietor of a bookstore.

Generic synonyms: Owner, Proprietor

Definition of Bookseller

1. n. One who sells books.

Definition of Bookseller

1. Noun. A person engaged in the business of selling books. ¹

2. Noun. A business that sells books. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bookseller

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookseller

bookmobile
bookmobiles
bookmonger
bookmongers
bookoo
bookoos
bookplate
bookplates
bookrack
bookracks
bookrest
bookrests
bookroom
bookrooms
books
bookseller (current term)
booksellers
bookselling
booksellings
booksful
bookshelf
bookshelves
bookshop
bookshops
booksie
booksier
booksiest
bookstaff
bookstaffs
bookstall

Literary usage of Bookseller

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

1. 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 (1895)
"He would be warned at first, and then similarly excluded, with the effect that, if a publisher, no reputable bookseller in Germany would stock a book of his ..."

2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"Memorandum that yesterday morning I paid Mr. Samuel Wilmot, of Oxford, bookseller, twenty Guineas, or one and twenty Pounds, for a compleat Set of my Ed. of ..."

3. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1904)
"The bookseller has, in addition to the difficulties above- mentioned, a third, if more normal, one—his working expenses, which may be put at a sliding scale ..."

4. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley (1813)
"Upham, Mr. Edward, bookseller, Exeter. Upham, Mr. John, bookseller, Bath. Walker, Mr. John, bookseller, Paternoster-row. Ward, John, Esq. Hinckley, ..."

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