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tobacconist Definition

to·bac·co·nist (tə bakə nist)

noun

Chiefly Brit. a dealer in tobacco and other smoking supplies

Etymology: tobacco + -n- + -ist: orig. applied to a user of tobacco

tobacconist Usage Examples

Possessives

  • shop: My son wanted to marry a woman of thirty in a tobacconist's shop.

Converse of object

  • run: Sometime before 1891, Donald Massey and his family moved to Worthing, where his father ran a tobacconist 's shop.
  • own: He always adds the little gibe about the fact that I own a tobacconist 's in Swansea.
  • become: By the time of his death in 1916, James J Fox had become the most important tobacconist in Ireland.
  • have: I have seen some of the others mentioned visiting there; Thomas J. Clarke had a tobacconist 's shop at 75a Parnell Street.

Adjective modifier

  • small: But you have many relations and friends in other, similar villages who also run small tobacconists.
  • great: A man may be a great tobacconist, a man may be a great painter, he may be likewise a great mimic.

Modifies a noun

  • shop: Suddenly the lights came on inside a tobacconist shop doorway.

Noun used with modifier

  • specialist: Note: Own label tobacco products sold by specialist tobacconists may be affected.

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