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# bookshop

«bookshop» in Mova's school dictionary: **A shop that sells books** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bookshop, bookshops); US usually bookstore

### meaning for a pupil

A shop that sells books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life in the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ: «a bookshop»; in the USA and Canada usually «bookstore». In maths problems, a bookshop often sells books at prices to add up.

### examples

- We bought a new atlas at the bookshop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/#x1)
- The bookshop on the corner has a reading corner for kids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/#x2)
- She works in a second-hand bookshop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/#x3)
- The bookshop sold 30 books on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/#x4)
- Let's look for comics in the bookshop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/#x5)
- The school had a pop-up bookshop for a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/#x6)

### note

One word. Not the same as a library: in a bookshop you buy books; in a library you borrow them free. US: bookstore.

### In the corpora

- [La librairie is a bookshop where you buy books; la bibliothèque is the library where you borrow them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bookshop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookshop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.