Translation
department store, large shop; warehouse, storehouse
Word origin
Through French magasin from Arabic makhzan, a storehouse, plural makhazin. The commercial sense came later, when the big Paris shops took the name of the buildings that held the stock.
- Origin
- Arabic, via French
- Root
- مخزن (makhzan)
- English cognates
- magazine, magasin
Examples
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She works in a big department store in the centre of town.
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The goods are waiting in the warehouse next to the railway.
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We bought everything in one store.
Two warnings. First, is not mistyped and not a magazine: the periodical is or , or itself (rank 2859), which is a real and separate word, even though English magazine and come from the same Arabic storehouse. Second, there is no affix in here at all - not maga- plus anything, not -eno. The root is - entire.
Against , the corner shop, a is the large one: the department store, or the warehouse behind it. Both senses are live, and context settles which you mean.
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