Word Study
Stationer
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Stationer, n. a person who sells writing materials etc.
Idiom
Stationers' Hall Brit. the hall of the Stationers' Company in London, at which a book was formerly registered for purposes of copyright.
Etymology
ME, = bookseller (as STATIONARY in med.L sense 'shopkeeper', esp. bookseller, as opposed to pedlar)
ROGET THESAURUS
Stationer
Mart
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