shopping

Meaning of shopping

noun
  1. the action or activity of buying goods from shops.
    shopping is so exhausting—all those decisions!
    a busy shopping area
verb, gerund or present participle
  1. visit one or more shops or websites to buy goods.
    she shopped for groceries twice a week
    don't buy a plastic carrier bag every time you go shopping
    sometimes it's more convenient to shop online
    take a trip to downtown San Diego to shop the upscale stores of Horton Plaza
  2. inform on (someone).
    she shopped her husband to bosses for taking tools home
  3. alter (a photographic image) digitally using Photoshop image-editing software.
    I reckon you shopped the image

Middle English: shortening of Old French eschoppe ‘lean-to booth’, of West Germanic origin; related to German Schopf ‘porch’ and English dialect shippon ‘cattle shed’. The verb is first recorded (mid 16th century) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), hence shop (sense 2 of the verb).

Information about shopping

Hyphenation of shopping

shop-ping

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • shopping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

shopping synonyms

Meaning obtain in exchange for payment:

buy

Meaning acquire (something) by paying for it; buy:

purchase

Meaning come to have (something); receive:

get

Meaning buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself:

acquire

Meaning get, acquire, or secure (something):

obtain

Meaning obtain (something), especially with care or effort:

procure

Meaning expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy:

betray

Meaning touch or feel with the fingers:

finger

Meaning (of liquid) form a pool on the ground or another surface:

pool

Translation of shopping

Anagrams of shopping

hoppings

Words that rhyme with shopping

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