What's the British word for store?

In UK English, store refers to a large shop where many different types of goods are sold, but in US English store can mean either a large or a small place where different types of goods are sold, or only one type.
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What is the British word for store?

The nouns shop and store are used somewhat differently in American and British English. In general, Americans use store the way the British use shop — to describe any room or building where people can buy things or pay for a service.
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Do the British use shop or store?

In British English, a building or part of a building where goods are sold is usually called a shop. Are there any shops near here? In American English, this kind of building is usually called a store, and shop is only used to mean a very small store that has just one type of goods.
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What is the British word for shop?

Is the American-English use of the word 'store' interchangeable with the British-English word 'shop', or do Americans sometimes refer to it as a 'shop'? Americans and British both refer to a small establishment purveying retail goods as a shop.
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What words can I use instead of store?

store
  • accumulate, bury, deposit, freeze, hide, hoard, keep, lock away, pack, put, save, stash, stockpile.
  • amass, bank, bin, bottle, cache, can, cumulate, garner, hive, hutch, mothball, park, reserve, squirrel away, stock up, treasure, victual, warehouse.
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How to pronounce STORE in British English

What is a store called in English?

A store is a shop. Store is used mainly to refer to a large shop selling a variety of goods, but in American English, a store can be any shop.
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How do you say store in a fancy way?

  1. shop.
  2. outlet.
  3. emporium.
  4. bazaar.
  5. market.
  6. shoppe.
  7. marketplace.
  8. showroom.
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How do you say store in the UK?

Below is the UK transcription for 'store':
  1. Modern IPA: sdóː
  2. Traditional IPA: stɔː
  3. 1 syllable: "STAW"
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What is the Old English name for shop?

Q: I assume that shopkeepers who refer to their shops as “shoppes” are trying to add a patina of Old English tradition to their establishments. But was “shop” really spelled “shoppe” in Anglo-Saxon times? A: No, the Old English word was “sceoppa,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but it was rarely used.
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Do British people call stores shops?

In Britain they are called shops because you go shopping there. The word store is sometimes used but doesn't apply to all shops. However, you wouldn't go storing because that has a completely different meaning in English and doesn't mean shopping.
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Is store used in the UK?

In UK English, store refers to a large shop where many different types of goods are sold, but in US English store can mean either a large or a small place where different types of goods are sold, or only one type.
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How do British people say grocery store?

In the United Kingdom, terms in common usage include "supermarket" (for larger grocery stores), "corner shop", "convenience shop", or "grocery" (meaning a grocery shop) for smaller stores. "Grocery store", being a North American term, is not used.
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How different are shop and store?

"shop" means any premises that sell retail goods, often of a single kind such as electrical goods, clothes, groceries etc. "Store" tends to mean a larger establishment that is divided into sections and sells several types of goods. ... A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.
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What is a shop girl in British slang?

shopgirl in British English

(ˈʃɒpɡɜːl ) noun. British old-fashioned. a female shop assistant. ▶ USAGE The word girl was formerly used in the titles of certain jobs, but this usage is now generally considered inappropriate because it trivializes the role of female workers.
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How do you say store in Old English?

From Old English stōr and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.
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What do Brits call convenience stores?

In Britain, corner shops in towns and village shops in the countryside served similar purposes and were the precursors to the modern European convenience shop (e.g. Spar).
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How do you say shop in Old English?

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”).
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What is the oldest store in the UK?

The Tulip Tree is believed to be the oldest working shop in the UK and first opened during the reign of Henry VI 570 years ago, according to its website. Constantinople fell the year it opened and by the end of 1453, the French had defeated the English in the Hundred Years' War.
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What is the English name for a general store?

A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise.
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What is a store in British English?

In British English, store is used mainly to refer to a large shop selling a variety of goods, but in American English a store can be any size of shop. [...]
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What do British people call markets?

A shop. Mini-market, a supermarket, hypermarket. Some are superstores. Mostly I think people call them by there brand name like Asda or Tesco or Co-op.
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What is the luxury word for shop?

boutique. A boutique is a small shop that sells fashionable clothes, shoes, or jewellery.
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What do you call a very small shop?

boutique. emporium. market. mart. Synonyms for small store from Random House Roget's College Thesaurus, Revised and Updated Edition © 2000 Random House, Inc.
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What is a huge store called?

A big-box store, a hyperstore, a supercenter, a superstore, or a megastore is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores.
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