The downstairs was rented to a bookseller.
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Bookseller
//ˈbʊksɛlɚ//
Synonyms for "bookseller" (82 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (41)
Related word relations
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Translations
73 translations across 38 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- βιβλιοπωλεῖον noun (business)
- βιβλιοπώλης noun (person)
Arabic
2 entries- كتابى noun (person)
- كتبي sg or noun (person)
Armenian
2 entries- բուկինիստ noun (person)
- գրավաճառ noun (person)
Asturian
1 entries- llibreru noun (person)
Belarusian
1 entries- букіні́ст noun (person)
Catalan
3 entries- llibrer noun (person)
- llibreter noun (person)
- llibretera noun (person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 書商 /书商 noun (business)
- 賣書者 /卖书者 noun (person)
Czech
1 entries- knihkupec noun (person)
Danish
2 entries- boghandel noun (business)
- boghandler noun (person)
Finnish
3 entries- kirjakauppa noun (business)
- kirjakauppias noun (person)
- kirjamyyjä noun (person)
French
2 entries- bouquiniste noun (person)
- libraire noun (person)
Friulian
1 entries- librâr noun (person)
Galician
1 entries- libreiro noun (person)
German
4 entries- Buchhändler noun (person)
- Buchhändlerin noun (person)
- Buchverkäufer noun (person)
- Buchverkäuferin noun (person)
Hungarian
1 entries- könyvárus noun (person)
Ido
2 entries- libristo noun (person)
- librovendisto noun (person)
Italian
2 entries- libraia noun (person)
- libraio noun (person)
Latin
2 entries- bibliopola noun (person)
- librārius noun (person)
Lithuanian
3 entries- knygininkas noun (person)
- knygynas noun (business)
- knygų pardavėjas noun (person)
Norwegian
1 entries- bokhandel noun (business)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bokhandler noun (person)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bokhandlar noun (person)
Occitan
1 entries- librari noun (person)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كتابجی noun (person)
Polish
3 entries- bukinista noun (person)
- księgarnia noun (business)
- księgarz noun (person)
Portuguese
2 entries- livraria noun (business)
- livreiro noun (person)
Romanian
1 entries- librar noun (person)
Russian
4 entries- букини́ст noun (person)
- кни́жный магази́н noun (business)
- книготорго́вец noun (person)
- книготорго́вля noun (business)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- knjižar noun (person)
Sicilian
1 entries- libbraru noun (person)
Slovak
1 entries- kníhkupec noun (person)
Spanish
2 entries- librera noun (person)
- librero noun (person)
Swedish
3 entries- bokhandel noun (business)
- bokhandlare noun (person)
- boklåda noun (business)
Turkish
2 entries- kitapçı noun (person)
- kitapçı noun (business)
Ukrainian
2 entries- букіні́ст noun (person)
- книгопродаве́ць noun (person)
Venetan
3 entries- librar noun (person)
- librer noun (person)
- łibrer noun (person)
Volapük
3 entries- bukihiselan noun (person)
- bukijiselan noun (person)
- bukiselan noun (person)
Yoruba
2 entries- atàwé noun (person)
- tàwé-tàwé noun (person)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The bookseller charged me ten dollars for the book.
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The bookseller reads a lot of books.
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"There is a scholar passing this way who is offering a book for sale." "So what then?" "I wanted to buy it, because he's offering it cheaper than our bookseller."
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