Definition of bookstore
: a place of business where books are the main item offered for sale —called also bookshop
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Recent Examples of bookstore from the Web
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The buzz: Grisham will begin his first bookstore tour in 25 years — in support of this rare summertime novel — on June 6.
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Amazon just opened its first bookstore in Manhattan and seventh overall.
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Amazon just opened its first bookstore in Manhattan and seventh overall.
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Like great bookstores and record stores, video stores are centers of entertainment, learning and discovery; a record of our cultural history; and an exciting social space where friendships, ideas and collaborations are born.
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Investors waited for the day that the online bookstore would turn a profit or realize gains from its spending on ventures such as perfecting logistics and licensing music and movies.
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The result: Quimby's NYC is both more unusual than Quimby's Chicago and, at half the size of Chicago Quimby's, closer to a traditional bookstore.
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Peter Barbatis, a vice president at Palm Beach State, said the college has frozen tuition for the past five years, has offered a variety of scholarships and has worked with the campus bookstore to keep the cost of textbooks and supplies reasonable.
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The Foster City, California, company, founded last year by bookstore magnate Louis Borders, currently offers grocery deliveries only in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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First Known Use of bookstore
1760
BOOKSTORE Defined for English Language Learners
bookstore
playDefinition of bookstore for English Language Learners
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: a store that sells books
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