What does Shop mean?

Definitions for Shop
ʃɒpshop

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Shop.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. shop, storenoun

    a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

    "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"

  2. workshop, shopnoun

    small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

  3. shop class, shopverb

    a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

    "I built a birdhouse in shop"

  4. shopverb

    do one's shopping

    "She goes shopping every Friday"

  5. patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsorverb

    do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

  6. shop, browseverb

    shop around; not necessarily buying

    "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"

  7. denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stagverb

    give away information about somebody

    "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

GCIDE

  1. Shopnoun

    A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.

Wiktionary

  1. shopnoun

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

  2. shopnoun

    A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.

  3. shopnoun

    An automobile mechanic's workplace.

  4. shopnoun

    Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.

  5. shopnoun

    A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.

  6. shopnoun

    an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.

    Our company is mostly a Java shop.

  7. shopnoun

    An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

    This is where I do my weekly shop.

  8. shopverb

    To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.

    I went shopping ; he's shopping for clothes.

  9. shopverb

    To report or "grass up" the criminal or otherwise wrong activities or whereabouts of (a suspect) to an authority.

  10. shopverb

    Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

  11. shopinterjection

    Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

  12. Etymology: From shoppe, from sceoppa

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Shopnoun

    Etymology: sceop , Saxon, a magazine; eschoppe, French; shopa, low Latin.] Robert Ainsworth

    Our windows are broke down,
    And we for fear compell’d to shut our shops. William Shakespeare.

    Your most grave belly thus answer’d;
    True is it, my incorporate friends,
    That I receive the general food at first,
    Which you do live upon; and fit it is,
    Because I am the store-house and the shop
    Of the whole body. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    In his needy shop a tortoise hung,
    An alligator stuft, and other skins
    Of ill-shap’d fishes; and about his shelves
    A beggarly account of empty boxes. William Shakespeare.

    Scarce any sold in shops could be relied on as faithfully prepared. Boyle.

    His shop is his element, and he cannot with any enjoyment of himself live out of it. Robert South, Sermons.

    We have divers mechanical arts and stuffs made by them; and shops for such as are not brought into vulgar use. Francis Bacon.

ChatGPT

  1. shop

    A shop is a physical location or an online platform where goods or services are sold to customers by a retailer or a business entity. It can range from small local businesses to large department stores or supermarkets, offering various items such as groceries, clothing, electronics, etc. In an online context, a shop can refer to a website or an application where customers make transactions digitally.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shop

    imp. of Shape. Shaped

  2. Shopnoun

    a building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail

  3. Shopnoun

    a building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop

  4. Shopverb

    to visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods

  5. Etymology: [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Shop

    shop, n. a building in which goods are sold by retail: a place where mechanics work, or where any kind of industry is pursued: one's own business or profession, also talk about such.—v.i. to visit shops for the purpose of buying.—v.t. (slang) to imprison:—pr.p. shop′ping; pa.p. shopped.—ns. Shop′-bell, a small automatic bell hung to give notice of the opening of a shop-door; Shop′-board, a bench on which work, esp. that of tailors, is done; Shop′-boy, -girl, a boy or girl employed in a shop; Shop′-keeper, one who keeps a shop for the sale of goods by retail; Shop′keeping, the business of keeping a shop; Shop′-lift′er; Shop′-lift′ing, lifting or stealing anything from a shop; Shop′man, one who serves in a shop: a shopkeeper; Shopoc′racy, shopkeepers collectively; Shop′ping, the act of visiting shops to see and buy goods.—adj. Shop′py, commercial: abounding in shops: given to talking shop: concerning one's own pursuit.—ns. Shop′-walk′er, one who walks about in a shop and sees the customers attended to; Shop′woman, a woman employed in a shop.—adj. Shop′-worn, somewhat tarnished by being exposed in a shop.—Fancy shop, a shop where fancy goods are sold.—Shut up shop (coll.), to abandon any enterprise; The other shop (slang), a rival institution or establishment; The whole shop (slang), entirely; Talk shop (coll.), to converse unseasonably about one's own profession. [A.S. sceoppa, a treasury (influenced by O. Fr. eschoppe, a stall.)]

Editors Contribution

  1. shop

    A type of business, company, enterprise or organization.

    The shop sells a variety of goods and they have a number of shops too.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 20, 2020  


  2. shop

    A type of retail business, company, enterprise or organization.

    The shop sells a variety of goods and they have a number of shops too.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 20, 2020  


  3. shop

    Go into a shop to purchase.

    The family choose to shop when they have eaten the food they bought.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 9, 2020  

Suggested Resources

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Shop

    Theatrical slang for an engagement.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Shop' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1167

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Shop' in Written Corpus Frequency: #479

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Shop' in Nouns Frequency: #257

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Shop' in Verbs Frequency: #834

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Anagrams for Shop »

  1. hops

  2. hosp

  3. OHPs

  4. posh

  5. soph

  6. phos

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shop in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Shop in a Sentence

  1. John Podesta:

    While we will not be consumed by these kinds of attacks, we will also not let them go unchallenged, that's why we are building a new one-stop shop to provide the facts about Hillary Clinton's positions and her record.

  2. Tim Ash:

    So (a) green light from Trump to Turkey to go ahead and get S400s - or that is now the Turkish view, i would imagine U.S. diplomat and defense department officials are in disbelief - Trump is like the proverbial bull in the China shop.

  3. Hudson Columbe:

    You can actually sell them to a pawn shop and they’re worth a few hundred bucks.

  4. Molly Snyder:

    We really took a pause and looked at what made sense in our stores, where does it make sense online and where is it unnecessary, one of the top ways people shopped online is by searching by gender. We wanted to make sure our site and stores are easy to shop, and follow a logical path for people.

  5. Tarun Pathak:

    You need to source components locally, which means you need to attract many more companies in the supply chain to set up shop in India.

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