/ʃɒp/
Translation
A place where you go to buy things.
Word origin
From Old English sceoppa, meaning a small booth or shed for selling goods.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- sceoppa
Grammar
Examples
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"Shop" means a place where you buy things.
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"Shop" here means the building where things are sold.
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"Shops" is the plural, meaning more than one shop.
A shop is a place where you go to buy things, such as food, clothes or books. A small shop may sell only one kind of thing, and a big shop may sell many. Most towns have shops on the main street.
Where this fits
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Grammar articles
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Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
Future continuous and future perfect in English: will be doing vs will have done
Future in the past: was going to, would, was about to, and the grammar of plans that failed
Future tense in English: will, going to and more explained
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Indirect questions in English: Could you tell me where the station is, and the word order that goes with it
Linking words in English: however, although, even though, despite and therefore
Past perfect tense: had plus past participle, and when English actually needs it
Phrasal verbs: 100 examples with meanings
Phrasal Verbs with Go: 14 Meanings You Actually Need
Phrasal Verbs with Take: 12 Meanings You Actually Need
Prepositions in English: place, time and movement explained
Present perfect continuous: have been doing, and how it differs from the present perfect
Present simple tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in English: myself, yourself, each other, and when English does not bother
Time clauses in English: when, while, as soon as, until, before and after
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