Bookseller is an English word with synonyms like owner or proprietor. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bookseller meaning
- A person engaged in the business of selling books.
- A business that sells books.
Synonyms of Bookseller
Using Bookseller
- The main meaning on this page is: A person engaged in the business of selling books. | A business that sells books.
- Useful related words include: owner, proprietor.
- In the example corpus, bookseller often appears in combinations such as: the bookseller, bookseller and, online bookseller.
Context around Bookseller
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bookseller
- In this selection, "bookseller" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, online, mortar, mexican, amazon, mohammed and hodges stand out and add context to how "bookseller" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a local bookseller who came and a mexican bookseller and her. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bookseller" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bookseller
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And as a bricks-and-mortar bookseller, Amazon was an abject failure. (12 words)
Dublin bookseller Hodges Figgis, owned by UK-anchored Waterstones, is doing the same. (13 words)
This bookseller has become so aware of how we, societally, have historically diminished women. (14 words)
Riding on starred prepublication reviews from the trades, the book, a fast-paced road novel about a Mexican bookseller and her son trying to cross the border to escape a murderous drug cartel, was named an Indie Next List Pick by independent bookstores. (43 words)
One of the best things about writing this column is that there’s always something to share with you, whether it’s a good book or an interview with an author or bookseller or something else, like these excellent stickers above. (41 words)
Defector Wang Liqiang was one of those who ordered the kidnapping of pro-democracy bookshop principals in and around Hong Kong in 2015 — he personally delivered the kidnap order to the six-man kidnapping team assigned to bookseller Lee Bo. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
And as a bricks-and-mortar bookseller, Amazon was an abject failure.
One of the best things about writing this column is that there’s always something to share with you, whether it’s a good book or an interview with an author or bookseller or something else, like these excellent stickers above.
Riding on starred prepublication reviews from the trades, the book, a fast-paced road novel about a Mexican bookseller and her son trying to cross the border to escape a murderous drug cartel, was named an Indie Next List Pick by independent bookstores.
The bookseller is currently trending on social media thanks to everyone talking about the books that they’re pre-ordering.
A first step is bringing the High Street bookseller back to a reviving Oxford Street where vinyl specialist HMV is another returnee.
A local bookseller who came by cried as she described how she had told visitors at her shop what happened to the paper when they asked about getting a copy.
Author SG MacLean makes her return to the festival to talk about her Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, which was Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Year 2023.
In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last few selling literature in a language beloved by poets for centuries.
Sanchez, Vogue enthused, had helped transform Bezos from 'round-shouldered online bookseller to Tony Stark titan of industry'.
The event will be followed by a book signing, with books sold by Grasmere-based bookshop, Sam Read Bookseller.
This bookseller has become so aware of how we, societally, have historically diminished women.
This modern debut introduces Belladonna Blackthorn, a bookseller and witch, weary of hiding her magic and exhausted from trying to keep Lunar Books afloat under a toxic boss.
When Anderson’s was founded in 1875, it was a combination of a pharmacy and bookshop — old ads called it a “druggist and bookseller,” she said.
Dublin bookseller Hodges Figgis, owned by UK-anchored Waterstones, is doing the same.
In November, Sweden's culture minister awarded the bookseller the annual Tucholsky literary prize despite a threat from the Chinese ambassador to ban her from entering the country.
The two-story structure, about 60 miles northwest of London, was built in 1924 for Basil Blackwell, a well-known Oxford bookseller.
Defector Wang Liqiang was one of those who ordered the kidnapping of pro-democracy bookshop principals in and around Hong Kong in 2015 — he personally delivered the kidnap order to the six-man kidnapping team assigned to bookseller Lee Bo.
Few people would look at this online bookseller 20 years ago and anticipated that it would lead the way in crafting a privately owned surveillance state.
It occupies what was, for 140 years, the antiquarian bookseller Gonnelli, just behind the duomo.
Seton and his colleagues consider a book from multiple perspectives, including how it fits into their market and if they think it will gain the necessary attention from the media, bookseller and readers to be successful.
Common combinations with bookseller
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bookseller 7×
- bookseller and 6×
- online bookseller 3×
- bookseller was 3×
- as bookseller 3×
- bookseller is 2×
- and bookseller 2×
- antiquarian bookseller 2×