tobacconist

/tə'bækənist/

Thân thiện

A man buys a pipe at the tobacconist.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A shop that sells tobacco products: A retail establishment specializing in selling items such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and related accessories.
   • A person who sells tobacco products: A retail dealer whose business is selling tobacco and tobacco-related articles.

Examples

• Noun:
  • I need to stop by the tobacconist to buy a new pipe.
  • The old tobacconist on the corner has been in business for fifty years.

Advanced Usage

• "Tobacconist's": Often used to refer to the shop itself, where the possessive form implies the establishment.
  • I'll meet you outside the tobacconist's.

Variants and Related Words

• Tobacco (n): The prepared leaves of the tobacco plant, used for smoking, chewing, or snuff.
• Tobacconist's shop (n phrase): A more explicit term for the retail store.

Synonyms

• Cigar store: A shop specializing in cigars and often other tobacco products.
• Smoke shop: A modern term for a store selling tobacco products and often related paraphernalia.

Related Phrases

• "To run a tobacconist": To own or manage a tobacco shop.
  • His dream was to run a small tobacconist in the village.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes
2. a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles

Từ đồng nghĩa

• tobacco shop
• tobacconist shop