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Gift Shop

Definition: Gift Shop

Gift Shop

Noun

1. A shop that sells miscellaneous articles appropriate as gifts.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Gift Shop

Synonym: novelty shop (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Gift Shop

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Hospital Gift Shop Buying & Planning Guide (reference)

  • Gift Shop (reference)

  • Hotel Gift Shop Clerk (reference)

  • How to Increase Sales & Profits! The Pillars to Hospital Gift Shop (reference)

  • How to Start and Manage a Gift Shop Business: A Practical Way to Start Your Own Business (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Gift Shop

Photos:
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Photo Album: Gift Shop

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The Green Parrot Tea Room and gift shop, Naples, Maine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lord & Taylor, business in Millburn, New Jersey. Gift shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bee Hive department store, business in Patchogue, Long Island. Vista from gift shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bloomingdale's, business in Hackensack, New Jersey. Gift shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gift Shop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gift shop

784

route 66 gift shop

4

eastman gift shop

29

statue of liberty gift shop

4

west point gift shop

21

mt rushmore gift shop

3

hospital gift shop

20

christmas gift shop.com

3

white house gift shop

19

novelty gift shop

3

vatican gift shop

16

city gift shop vatican

2

smithsonian gift shop

11

fair gift shop trade uk

2

academy air force gift shop

8

judaica gift shop

2

lsu gift shop

7

court gift shop supreme

2

14th armd cav gift shop

6

castle gift shop windsor

2

christmas gift shop

6

metaphysical gift shop

2

pet gift shop

5

bear gift shop three

2

perfect gift shop

4

fair gift shop trade

2

gamboa gift shop

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Gift Shop

Language Translations for "gift shop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

kadowinkel. (various references)

   

German

  

Geschenkladen, geschenkboutique. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

土"物屋 (souvenir store), ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gal, gallery, gammon, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gimmick, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ギフトショップ , みや'ものや (souvenir store). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftgay opshay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

boutique. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

магазин подарков. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tienda de regalos (gift store). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Gift Shop

Misspellings

"Gift Shop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: giftshop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Gift Shop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-o-p-s-t"

-2 letters: fights, spigot.

-3 letters: fight, foist, ghost, gifts, hoist, phots, piths, posit, shift, sight, tophi, tophs, topis.

-4 letters: figs, fish, fist, fits, fogs, fops, ghis, gift, gips, gist, gits, gosh, hips, hist, hits, hogs, hops, host, hots, opts, phis, phot, pigs, pish, piso, pith, pits, pois, posh, post, pots, ship, shog, shop, shot, sift.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-o-p-s-t"
 

+2 letters: postflight.

 

+3 letters: shoplifting.

 

+4 letters: sportfishing.

 

+5 letters: sportfishings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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