seller

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈsɛlə/(UK)
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/ˈsɛlə/(UK) · /ˈsɛlɚ/(US)

Definition of seller

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
    “Alisha was a seller of fine books.”
    “De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, announced plans in 2017 to operate a carbon-neutral mine and pointed out that the FTC has warned lab-grown diamond sellers over the veracity of their environmental claims.”
    “Amazon secured a major legal victory in its fight with rival eBay over seller poaching, with an arbitration panel ruling in its favor earlier this month, according to court filings by the company on Tuesday.”
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noun

  1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
    “Alisha was a seller of fine books.”
    “De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, announced plans in 2017 to operate a carbon-neutral mine and pointed out that the FTC has warned lab-grown diamond sellers over the veracity of their environmental claims.”
    “Amazon secured a major legal victory in its fight with rival eBay over seller poaching, with an arbitration panel ruling in its favor earlier this month, according to court filings by the company on Tuesday.”
  2. Something which sells.
    “Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.”
    “Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.”
  3. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of cellar.

name

  1. An English and Scottish topographic surname, derived from any of several places named Sell.
  2. An English and Scottish occupational surname for a saddler, or for a person who sells things.
  3. An English and Scottish metonymic surname for someone who worked in a cellar.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell + -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell + -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).

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