SHOPS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of shop

as in stores

also shoppes an establishment where goods are sold to consumers the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state

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as in factories

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods a machine shop

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as in dialects

the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop

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shops

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verb

present tense third-person singular of shop, British

as in informs (on)

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Recent Examples of shops

Noun

This two-bedroom loft built in the 1850s is located steps away from Bowen’s Wharf, so all of Newport’s buzziest restaurants, bars, and shops are well within reach. — Kelsey Mulvey, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2026 The neighborhood/area Just across the train tracks is Vesterbro with an excellent range of independent shops and restaurants, not least in Kødbyen, the Meat Packing district. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026 The building now contains shops, restaurants, offices and apartments, and forms the centrepiece of a 42-acre development beside the River Thames. — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Walking just a few streets away from the square reveals quieter courtyards, small cafes and shops that feel less staged. — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Explora also partners with Cartier, Piaget and Panerai on standalone shops. — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026 Today, some bright spots aside, the Art Deco District’s historic commercial spine is a drab length of vacant and unkempt storefronts, smoke shops, liquor stores, fast-food outlets, cheap T-shirt emporia and other varieties of tourist trap. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026 The market usually features live music, local artisan vendors, and booths from shops throughout the district. — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026 More shops and restaurants are getting set to join the landmark Treasure Valley shopping center, The Village at Meridian. — Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 21 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shops

Noun

The highway span was the exact ground covered last year by Sunshine Perez, who had made two trips to liquor stores to buy Patron tequila before driving the wrong way onto a Turnpike exit ramp.

— Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Thieves are smashing windows and targeting trading card stores looking for valuable Pokémon cards, and two stores have now been hit in South Jersey, police said.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of stores

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Sometimes the problem is not translation at all, but meanings that shift between two dialects of the same language.

— Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Korea and China just demonstrated, in their very different dialects, that friction can be deliberately put back.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of dialects

Verb

Pogačar climbing the Alpe’s 21 turns in 35 minutes and 27 seconds, almost one and a half minutes faster than the late Italian managed in his heyday.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 July 2026
One of the best turns in Blue Roses comes when Ciba allows the argument to outgrow Williams himself.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026

Definition of turns in

Noun

In Chicago the bulk of the newcomers settled on the South Side, close to the city’s industrial belt of steel mills and manufacturers.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
The mills, like others along California’s North Coast, closed due to heavy logging of old-growth trees that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026

Definition of mills

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Local players globally are building AI-native products on local rails, in local languages, with local licenses and with local context, years before that attention arrives.

— Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Lawmakers in New Zealand have passed a bill to make English one of the country’s official languages.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of languages

Noun

If your crepe myrtles aren’t receiving enough light, transplant them to a new growing location when the plants are dormant in winter.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026
Desalination plants across the Persian Gulf were struck on numerous occasions during the Iran-US war.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of plants

Noun

This requires deployment at the edge, integration into proprietary data pipelines, fine-tuning for domain-specific vocabularies, and compliance with local data sovereignty laws.

— Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
This gap can help explain why some children’s vocabularies grow so much faster than others.

— Michelle Kearney, The Conversation, 7 July 2026