stationer

Speech parts

1. stationer - Noun

2. stationer - Adjective

Meaning

A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.

One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

parker chandler baker estimator placer caster draper saddler director butcher locator florist ranker officer carrier
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Hypernyms

merchandiser merchant

Phrases with the word

stationer's

Anagrams

itasetron nitrosate restation

Examples

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. Honoré de Balzac

He packaged his crayons into decorative boxes and offered them through stationer clients he knew. Source: Internet

The solution, stationer, is an anagram of into tears, the letters of which have burst out of their original arrangement to form the name of a type of businessman. Source: Internet

The first indication of this change in approach comes from the 1706 pamphlet by John How, a stationer, titled Reasons humbly Offer'd for a Bill for the Encouragement of Learning and the Improvement of Printing. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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