In British English, a building or part of a building where goods are sold is usually called a shop.
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.
In British English, very large shops are sometimes called stores.
In both British and American English, a large shop that has separate departments selling different types of goods is called a department store.
Shop can also be a verb. When people shop, they go to shops and buy things.
You usually say that someone goes shopping, rather than that they 'shop'.
When someone goes to the shops to buy things that they need regularly, such as food, you say that they do the shopping or do their shopping.
Shopping can be used without 'do' or 'go' to refer to the activity of buying things from shops.
Shopping can also refer to the things that someone has just bought from a shop or shops.
Shopping is an uncountable noun. Don't talk about 'a shopping' or someone's 'shoppings'.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() bakehouse, bakery, bakeshop - a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold barbershop - a shop where men can get their hair cut betting shop - a licensed bookmaker's shop that is not at the race track bodega - a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries booth - a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment boutique, dress shop - a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry building supply house, building supply store - a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures butcher shop, meat market - a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold canteen - sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. chain store - one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise cleaners, dry cleaners - shop where dry cleaning is done commissary - a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) computer store - a store that sells computers to the small businessperson or personal user convenience store - a store selling a limited variety of food and pharmaceutical items; open long hours for the convenience of customers apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, drugstore, pharmacy - a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold gift shop, novelty shop - a shop that sells miscellaneous articles appropriate as gifts hardware store, ironmonger's shop, ironmonger - a store selling hardware; "in Great Britain they used to call a hardware store an ironmonger's shop" head shop - a shop specializing in articles of interest to drug users; "he bought some roach clips and hashish pipes at the head shop" junk shop - a shop that sells cheap secondhand goods mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet - a place of business for retailing goods outfitter - a shop that provides equipment for some specific purpose; "an outfitter provided everything needed for the safari" liquor store, off-licence, package store - a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere loan office, pawnbroker's shop, pawnshop - a shop where loans are made with personal property as security perfumery - store where perfumes are sold pet shop - a shop where pet animals can be purchased fix-it shop, repair shop - a shop specializing in repairs and maintenance beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, beauty shop, salon - a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work shopfront, storefront - the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows specialty store - a store that sells only one kind of merchandise second-hand store, thriftshop - a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices tobacco shop, tobacconist shop, tobacconist - a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes toyshop - shop where toys are sold |
2. | store - a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" infrastructure, base - the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" accumulation - (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation provision - a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) government issue, military issue, issue - supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government seed stock - a supply of seeds (or tubers) reserved for planting | |
3. | ![]() computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system - a machine for performing calculations automatically computer hardware, hardware - (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system memory device, storage device - a device that preserves information for retrieval nonvolatile storage, non-volatile storage - computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off fixed storage, read-only memory, read-only storage, ROM - (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed real storage - the main memory in a virtual memory system register - (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind scratchpad - (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information virtual memory, virtual storage - (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory; the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses volatile storage - computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off | |
4. | ![]() depositary, depository, repository, deposit - a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping dump - a place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump" powder magazine, powder store, magazine - a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored railhead - a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution treasure house - a storehouse for treasures storage warehouse, warehouse - a storehouse for goods and merchandise | |
Verb | 1. | store - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" bin - store in bins keep, hold on - retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" computerise, computerize - store in a computer; "computerized dictionary" victual - lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" collect, compile, accumulate, amass, roll up, hoard, pile up - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" hive - store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information" |
2. | store - find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some" garner - store grain keep, hold on - retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" keep - store or keep customarily; "Where do you keep your gardening tools?" mothball - put into long-term storage reposit - put (something) in a place for storage; "the treasure found int he ancient tomb was reposited in the museum" wharf - store on a wharf; "Wharf the merchandise" tank - store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it loft - store in a loft warehouse - store in a warehouse garage - keep or store in a garage; "we don't garage our car" bottle - store (liquids or gases) in bottles ensile - store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows" |