shop
UK /ʃɒp/ · US /ʃɑp/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun
Forms shops shopping shopped
- noun An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- noun A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- noun A large garage where vehicle mechanics work. “The car's in the shop right now.”
- noun Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- noun (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- noun A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
- noun An establishment where a barber or beautician works. “a barber shop”
- noun An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies. “This is where I do my weekly shop.”
- verb (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise. “Why don’t you come shopping for gifts with me, early before the Christmas rush?”
- verb (transitive) To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home. “Shop our new arrivals.”
- verb (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority. “He shopped his mates in to the police.”
- verb (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
- verb (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- verb (transitive, slang, archaic) To dismiss from employment.
- verb (transitive, colloquial) To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
- verb (transitive) To pitch (a book, script, etc.) to a publisher or studio.
- interjection (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
- proper noun A small village in Morwenstow parish, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SS2214).
- proper noun A neighbourhood of St Merryn, St Merryn parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW8773).
Synonyms
boutique atelier studio workshop garage office place of work workplace carpentry wood shop woodwork retail outlet store metal shop metalwork machine shop grass up fire sack shop class patronize patronise shop at buy at frequent sponsor browse denounce tell on betray
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
- imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.
- noun A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
- noun A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
- verb To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
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.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “shop”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details