shop

1. 1.

   a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

   “he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod”

   Synonymsstore

   Broadermercantile establishment

   Narrowerbakerybarbershopbazaarbetting shopbodegabookshopboothboutiquebuilding supply storebutcher shop

   Partsshopfront
2. 2.

   small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

   Synonymsworkshop

   Broaderworkplace

   Narrowerbinderybookbinderybrickyardchop shopdye-worksmachine shoppotteryprint shop
3. 3.

   a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

   “I built a birdhouse in shop”

   Synonymsshop class

   Broadercourse

Other forms of shop

plural

shops·

past tense or participle

shopped

present participle

shopping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shop

What does shop mean?

shop means "do one's shopping". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shop?

shop has 1 syllable: shop. In IPA it is /ˈʃɑp/.

What is another word for shop?

Close synonyms include patronize, patronise, shop at, buy at, frequent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shop a common word?

shop is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shop?

5 words rhyme with shop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.