Added 30 September 2026
shop
/ʃɒp/ noun
In Latin: taberna Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about shop at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
verb
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To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
Why don’t you come shopping for gifts with me, early before the Christmas rush?
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To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
Shop our new arrivals.
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To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
He shopped his mates in to the police.
interjection
Origin
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 (“shed”), 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.
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