Meaning

noun a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

noun small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

noun a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

originEtymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English shoppe English shop 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…

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