SHOP

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.

2.
n.

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. Cowper.

3.
n.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. A tailor called me in his shop. Shak.

4.
v.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. Byron.


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