shop

English Online Dictionary. What means shop‎? What does shop mean?

English

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 (“spade, kick”), 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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɒp/
• (General American) enPR: shäp, IPA^(key): /ʃɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

shop (countable and uncountable, plural shops)

2. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
3. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
4. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

5. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
6. (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
7. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
8. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

   a barber shop

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

10. (UK, colloquial) The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.

Synonyms

• (establishment that sells goods): boutique, retail outlet, store (US and Canada); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (place where things are crafted): atelier, studio, workshop
• (automobile mechanic's workplace): garage
• (workplace): office, place of work, workplace
• (wood shop): carpentry, wood shop, woodwork
• (metal shop): metal shop, metalwork, machine shop

Derived terms

Related terms

• shoppe

Descendants

Translations

Verb

shop (third-person singular simple present shops, present participle shopping, simple past and past participle shopped)

1. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

   I went shopping early before the Christmas rush.

   He’s shopping for clothes.

2. (transitive) To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
3. (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

4. (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
5. (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
6. (transitive, slang, archaic) To dismiss from employment.

   Synonyms: fire, sack

7. (transitive, colloquial) To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
   • quoted in 1970, United States. Bureau of Employment Security, Benefit Series Service: Unemployment Insurance (page 221-7)

     A grocery clerk who, after he had been "shopped" on occasions, was discharged because he had admitted that on one occasion he had not rung up a sale immediately after the transaction, as required by the company rule, but had recorded it later when he had remembered it, held discharged, but not for misconduct connected with his work […]

Synonyms

• (to report a criminal to authority): grass up (slang)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

• (dismiss from employment): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Interjection

shop

1. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

Further reading

• “shop”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Hosp., OHPs, PHOs, Posh, Soph, hops, hosp, phos, posh, soph

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shop.

Noun

shop c (singular definite shoppen, plural indefinite shopper or shops)

1. shop (Smaller store with a special or exquisite product range in e.g. fashion, clothing, cosmetics or gift items)

   Synonym: boutique

Declension

Derived terms

• gaveshop
• modeshop
• sexshop
• mærkevareshop

References

• “shop” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shop.

Pronunciation

Noun

shop m (plural shops, diminutive shopje n)

1. shop

   Synonym: winkel

Derived terms

• koffieshop

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃop/, [ˈʃo̞p]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

shop

1. (Anglism) Alternative form of shoppi (establishment that sells goods or services to the public).

Declension

Further reading

• “shop”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔp/

Noun

shop f (plural shops)

1. (North America, anglicism) workshop

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shop.

Noun

shop n (plural shopuri)

1. a small shop
2. (historical) a hard currency shop

Declension

Spanish

Noun

shop m (plural shops)

1. (Chile) Alternative spelling of schop