shopping

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

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, shop +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑpɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ

Verb

shopping

1. present participle and gerund of shop

Noun

shopping (usually uncountable, plural shoppings)

1. The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
2. Recently bought goods.

3. An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.

4. Placement in a workshop for overhaul.

Usage notes

In English, it is common to say do the shopping or go shopping. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

• Hoppings, hoppings

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.piŋ/

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping (act of shopping)

Further reading

• “shopping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɔp.pinɡ/, ^*/ˈʃɔp.pin/
• Rhymes: -ɔppinɡ, -ɔppin
• Hyphenation: shòp‧ping

Noun

shopping m (invariable)

1. shopping

References

Polish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɔ.piŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɔpiŋk
• Syllabification: sho‧pping

Noun

shopping m inan

1. (colloquial) shopping (leisure activity of going shopping to large shopping centres)

   Synonyms: kupowanie, sprawunki, zakupy

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• shopping in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• shopping at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Portuguese

Etymology

Ellipsis of English shopping center.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔpĩ, (Portugal) -ɔpĩɡ

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping center
2. mall (an enclosed shopping center)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Noun

shopping n (uncountable)

1. shopping

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃopinɡ/ [ˈʃo.pĩŋɡ]
• Rhymes: -opinɡ

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)
2. shopping center

   Synonym: centro comercial

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping, equivalent to shoppa +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ɧɔpɪŋ/

Noun

shopping c (uncountable)

1. shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)

Declension

Related terms

• shoppa
• shop