SALESWOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saleswoman mean? 

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

1. a woman salesperson

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALESWOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman salesperson

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

salesgirl; saleslady; saleswoman

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

sales rep; sales representative; salesperson (a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited))

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

midinette (a Parisian salesgirl)

 Context examples 

A group of girls were standing about May's table, admiring the pretty things, and talking over the change of saleswomen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their grains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)