shoe-shop
1.0
A place where people buy shoes
- noun
- /ˈʃuː ʃɑːp/
- UK
:
zapatería
- I visited the local shoe shop to find a pair of boots for winter.
Why would you walk around the shoe shop in one shoe?
- Why would you walk around the shoe shop in one shoe?
Examples
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She bought her new sandals at the trendy shoe shop downtown.
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The shoe shop had a great sale on sneakers this weekend.
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Why would you walk around the shoe shop in one shoe?
Synonyms
store
vsshoe-shop
∞
1.0
A shop where people buy goods like food or clothes
focuses on one product type rather than serving the public with many goods
shop
vsshoe-shop
∞
1.0
A place where people buy things and pay for services
focuses on selling one product type rather than any goods
30
1.0
A shop that sells shoes
uses a hyphenated place word instead of the unhyphenated alternative
retail store
vsshoe-shop
27
1.0
A shop that sells goods in small amounts directly to people
sells a single product type rather than goods generally
2
1.0
A place where people buy shoes like trainers and boots
is identical in meaning but written with a hyphen
How Big
Surface Forms
shoe-shop singular
shoe-shops plural
Morphology
Etymology
Shoe-shop is made from the words shoe and shop. The part shoe means 'foot covering' and shop means 'place to buy'. So a shoe-shop is simply a place where people go to buy shoes.