bookshop

«bookshop» in Mova's school dictionary: A shop that sells books — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bookshop, bookshops); US usually bookstore

meaning for a pupil

A shop that sells books. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life in the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ: «a bookshop»; in the USA and Canada usually «bookstore». In maths problems, a bookshop often sells books at prices to add up.

examples

• We bought a new atlas at the bookshop. tree →
• The bookshop on the corner has a reading corner for kids. tree →
• She works in a second-hand bookshop. tree →
• The bookshop sold 30 books on Saturday. tree →
• Let's look for comics in the bookshop. tree →
• The school had a pop-up bookshop for a week. tree →

note

One word. Not the same as a library: in a bookshop you buy books; in a library you borrow them free. US: bookstore.

In the corpora

• La librairie is a bookshop where you buy books; la bibliothèque is the library where you borrow them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bookshop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.