🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Buchhandlung

Pronunciation / Transliteration: booḱ-han-dlung

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bookstore/ˈbʊkˌstɔːr/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die neue Buchhandlung in der Stadt ist sehr schön."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A retail establishment that sells books.

    "I love spending my weekends browsing in the local bookstore."
  2. 2

    A place where books are available for purchase or reading.

    "The new bookstore in town has a cozy reading area."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'bookstore' is a compound of 'book', derived from Old English 'bōc', meaning 'a written document', and 'store', from Old French 'estorer', meaning 'to place or store'. The combination reflects the function of a place where books are sold, evolving in usage since the 19th century.

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