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手頃な英語シノニム辞典
Reviewed in Japan on November 21, 2013
書名Word for Wordから内容がわかりにくいが、英語のシノニム辞典である。約３０００語収録。ネイティブスピーカー向けに書かれたものであるが、我々が読んでも有用である。たとえば、sound/noise については、soundは「耳に入ってくる音一般」で、awfulのようなマイナスの形容詞とも共起するが、noiseほど決定的に「不快」ではない。noise は「不快で大きな、歓迎されざる音」で、horribleのようなマイナスの形容詞としばしば共起するという。BNCで形容詞との共起検索をしてみると、soundの上位共起語は only, good, new, other, familiar, great, different, soft…で、noiseの上位共起語はloud, strange, low, big, great, terrible, constant, excessive…で本書が指摘する通りの傾向が存在することがわかる。またThere was the faint but unmistakable sound of a waterfall in the distance./ The children are making a lot of noise[*sound].といった用例もついていて便利である。
本書のもう一つの特色は100あまりの囲み記事である。dates(digital and non-digital), split-infinitiveなどトピックはさまざまだが役に立つ情報が多い。
手頃なシノニム辞典としてお勧めする。
Bookstore is the correct spelling. Book store is incorrectly used instead of the compound word bookstore. In British English, bookshop is more commonly used. The plural form is bookstores or bookshops.
The hyphenated versions book-store and book-shop are also incorrect.
Compound words are two or more words that are combined to make a new word with a new meaning. They can be open compounds, closed compounds, or hyphenated compounds. Open compounds are words that stay separated by a space, such as living room. Closed compounds are words that are combined without a space, such as sunflower. Hyphenated compounds are combined by a hyphen, like merry-go-round.
Bookstore is an example of a closed compound word. It is always written as one word, and it is an American word that dates back to the mid-1700s. Today, it can be used to mean a physical store or an online store that sells books.
Let’s take a look at some examples:
Correct: I love supporting independent bookstores.
Incorrect: I love supporting independent book stores.
Incorrect: I love supporting independent book-stores.
Correct: The bookshop is closed on Mondays.
Incorrect: The book shop is closed on Mondays.
Incorrect: The book-shop is closed on Mondays.
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#2
Yes, «at a bookstore» would work.
We commonly use the definite article like that simply to mean the local one or the one nearby.
You could say for example «He works at the bank/at the chemist’s/at the railway station/at the Post Office…» etc.
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#5
Can I use «in» instead of «at» for the word «bookstore»? I think they can be interchangeable and have the same meaning. But not sure.
It’s generally more idiomatic to use «at» when describing someone’s place of work.
However, «He works in a bookstore» would work if, for example, you didn’t know which one it was.
: a place of business where books are the main item offered for sale
called also
bookshop
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web
There are indirect benefits as well: sweatshirt sales at the bookstore, season tickets at Viejas Arena, a bump in donations, a rise in applications.
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
In part 2 of You’s fourth season, Penn Badgley’s former bookstore manager discovered that Rhys (Ed Speleers), a.k.a.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
Barnes & Noble has its place, but there’s something special about perusing the aisles at an independent bookstore.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2023
Badgley plays Joe Goldberg, a bookstore manager who turns his intense crushes into sinister relationships through social media stalking and dark obsession.
—Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
Joe — who in Season 1 is a Manhattan bookstore manager broken by childhood abuse — is a charming serial killer whose charisma, physical attractiveness and baggage lead women to fall for him again and again.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
Season 4, the latest installment of the thriller series, finds Joe across the pond in London — but back in the beginning, in season 1, the killer is introduced as a bookstore manager in New York City.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2023
That might be going to a school and visiting a classroom of students, visiting an independent bookstore, or hosting writing events with my friends.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2023
Along with writing best-selling books, Straub also owns Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore with two locations in Brooklyn, with her husband.
—Molly Fellin Spence, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1760, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of bookstore was
in 1760
Dictionary Entries Near bookstore
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“Bookstore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bookstore. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.
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существительное ↓
- книжный магазин
medical bookstore — магазин медицинской книги 
chain bookstore — книжный магазин, входящий в книготорговую сеть
discount bookstore — книжный магазин, торгующий уценённой книгой
juvenile bookstore — книжный магазин литературы для юношества
Мои примеры
Примеры с переводом
She worked in a bookstore during college.
Во время учебы в колледже она работала в книжном магазине.
There were a few browsers in the bookstore.
В книжном магазине было несколько посетителей, перелистывавших книги в поисках чего-то стоящего.
She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day.
На днях она случайно наткнулась в книжном магазине на интересную книгу.
The only available copy of the book is in the local bookstore.
Единственный доступный экземпляр книги находится в местном книжном магазине.
The bookstore primarily services people looking for out-of-print books.
В первую очередь этот книжный магазин обслуживает людей, которые ищут раритетные книги.
That is very similar to building the bookstore in a prominent urban location.
Это очень похоже на строительство книжного магазина в видном городском месте.
His approach produces results very different from those we usually find on the shelves of bookstores.
Его подход приводит к результатам, сильно отличающимся от тех, которые мы обычно находим на полках книжных магазинов.
Примеры, ожидающие перевода
Several customers were browsing in the bookstore. 
Profits were falling until the bookstore branched out into selling CDs.
…a quirky secondhand bookstore with a macédoine of out-of-print titles…
Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.
Возможные однокоренные слова
book — книга, книжка, журнал, том, заказывать, книжный
shop — магазин, цех, мастерская, делать покупки, цеховой
store — магазин, склад, универмаг, хранить, накапливать, запасной, запасный, готовый
Формы слова
noun
ед. ч.(singular): bookstore
мн. ч.(plural): bookstores