men's store
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1.7
- noun
- /mɛnz stɔr/
:
tienda de hombres
- He bought a pair of shoes from the men's store that he plans to wear for his new job.
- a local men's store
Examples
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But on the corner of 58th and Fifth Avenue, a pair of matching buildings dominates the city's most exclusive shopping district: the flagship Bergdorf Goodman and her brother's men's store.
Blog text (5) -
If we place Picasso's necktie side by side with a necktie of identical manufacture purchased at a local men's store, how can we distinguish the artwork from its rival look-alike?
Academic text (1993) -
Courtesy of my old man's store.
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For a minute, I thought they were gifts for me, but they were from Homme-7, an expensive men's store.
Fiction book (2000) -
Who's got the best men's store in Cooperstown, New York?
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At the men's store.
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Be at McNab's the men's store on Broadway at 9:00 PM, or they'II have their own website.
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Mark knew that the men's stores would always survive because men need work shoes and dress shoes, and the styles remain more or less constant, while women's shoes have to be changed all year long to follow fashion, even if you don't sell up your stock.
Fiction book (1996) -
I had to buy the Sunday papers from the white man's store because the Black store across the street didn't open until 11:00 a.m. or noon on Sundays.
Blog text (17) -
They stopped first at Mallory's favorite men's store, Klaus Ruger's, where the Vienna-born outfitter imported the best suitings from Italy, Spain, and England.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.0
A shop where people buy goods like food or clothes
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1.0
A shop that sells goods in small amounts directly to people
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1.0
A shop that sells clothes for men and women
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2.8
A shop that sells only one type of product
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8.6
A shop that sells men's clothes and accessories like hats and ties
A shop that sells men's hats, shirts and ties
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a shop for men's clothing' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'men's' (relating to adult men) with 'store' (a shop); the possessive/adjectival modifier indicates the target customers. This is a common, compositional English pattern (X store = a store for X) and is cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Men's store comes from the simple picture of a shop window and rooms filled only with men's suits, shirts and ties. Because shops long ago used signs or a separate area for men's items, the phrase now means 'a shop that sells men's clothing and accessories'.