storekeeper

English

Etymology

From store +‎ keeper.

Noun

storekeeper (plural storekeepers)

1. One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

2. One who is in charge of stores or goods of any kind.

   a naval storekeeper

3. (US, colloquial, dated) Any unsaleable item.

Synonyms

• shopkeeper

Related terms

• bookstorekeeper

Translations

person who runs a shop

• Bengali: দোকানদার (bn) (dōkanodar), তহরি (bn) (tohori), দোকানী (bn) (dokanī)
• Bulgarian: магазинер (bg) m (magaziner)
• Finnish: kauppias (fi)
• French: commerçant (fr) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: σκευοφύλαξ m (skeuophúlax)

• Ido: butikisto (io)
• Latin: tabernārius m
• Macedonian: дуќа́нџија m (duḱándžija)
• Ottoman Turkish: دكانجی (dükkâncı), مغازه‌جی (mağazacı)
• Sanskrit: कोष्ठागारिक (sa) m (koṣṭhāgārika)
• Spanish: tendero (es)
• Yiddish: קרעמער m (kremer)
• Yup'ik: kap'aniskaq