MONGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monger mean? 

• MONGER (noun)
  The noun MONGER has 1 sense:

1. someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

  Familiarity information: MONGER used as a noun is very rare.

• MONGER (verb)
  The verb MONGER has 1 sense:

1. sell or offer for sale from place to place

  Familiarity information: MONGER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bargainer; dealer; monger; trader

Hypernyms ("monger" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monger"):

art dealer (a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation)

barterer (a trader who exchanges goods and not money)

bibliopole; bibliopolist (a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books))

cheesemonger (someone who sells cheese)

barrow-boy; barrow-man; costermonger (a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow)

cutler (a dealer in cutlery)

draper (a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods))

fence (a dealer in stolen property)

fishmonger; fishwife (someone who sells fish)

horse trader (a hard bargainer)

hardwareman; ironmonger (someone who sells hardware)

mercer (a dealer in textiles (especially silks))

seedman; seedsman (a dealer in seeds)

slop-seller; slopseller (a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing)

stamp dealer (a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors))

stock trader (someone who buys and sells stock shares)

Derivation:

monger (sell or offer for sale from place to place)

• MONGER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or offer for sale from place to place

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hawk; huckster; monger; peddle; pitch; vend

Hypernyms (to "monger" is one way to...):

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

monger (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)

 Context examples 

He was not a fame-monger, but merely one of God's mad lovers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)