shop

CEFRA1

/ʃɒp/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A place where goods or services are sold.

  2. 02

    verb

    To look for and buy things in stores.

Examples

  • All you have to do is wait on any customers that come to the shop.

  • I heard a cotton candy shop has just opened. Let's go, dudes.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

  2. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.

  3. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

More examples

In context

  • I shop there from time to time.

  • The car's in the shop right now.

  • This is where I do my weekly shop.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“shed”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.