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CHEESEMONGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cheesemonger mean?
• CHEESEMONGER (noun)
The noun CHEESEMONGER has 1 sense:
1. someone who sells cheese
Familiarity information: CHEESEMONGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who sells cheese
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("cheesemonger" is a kind of...):
bargainer; dealer; monger; trader (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)
Context examples
This is invented for me, and delivered to me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, If I go into a cheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucester cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment—at which I see Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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