newsagent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
noun
The proprietor of such a business.
Example Sentences
- "The papers are freely available in Sydney bookshops and newsagents."
- "However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!"