SHOPKEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shopkeeper mean? 

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

1. a merchant who owns or manages a shop

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOPKEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A merchant who owns or manages a shop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

market keeper; shopkeeper; storekeeper; tradesman

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

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

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

cleaner; dry cleaner (the operator of dry-cleaning establishment)

florist (someone who grows and deals in flowers)

hosier (a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear)

newsagent; newsdealer; newsstand operator; newsvendor (someone who sells newspapers)

tobacconist (a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles)

Holonyms ("shopkeeper" is a member of...):

tradespeople (people engaged in trade)

 Context examples 

Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The fly-drivers, among whom I inquired next, were equally jocose and equally disrespectful; and the shopkeepers, not liking my appearance, generally replied, without hearing what I had to say, that they had got nothing for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)