shopping
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʃɑpɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Verb
shopping
- present participle of shop
Noun
shopping (usually uncountable, plural shoppings)
- The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
- On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 280:
- After a hard day's shopping, they had come home laden with bargains, and the dressing-room was strewed with Indian fans, ivory boxes, and lace.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 132:
- Here I began my shopping, was interviewed by dressmakers, and naturally had much to do to habit myself for civilized life again.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
- Recently bought goods.
- I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.
- An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
- Boston has good shopping.
- Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
- 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The roller-bearing A1s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 643:
- The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.
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Usage notes
In English, it is common to say do the shopping or go shopping. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
Derived terms
- home shopping
- shopping bag
- shopping basket
- shopping bot
- shopping cart
- shopping center
- shopping centre
- shopping list
- shopping mall
- shopping trolley
- window shopping
Descendants
More information
- → Armenian: շոփինգ (šopʿing)
- → Azerbaijani: şopinq
- → Belarusian: шо́пінг (šópinh)
- → Georgian: შოფინგი (šopingi)
- → Macedonian: шопинг (šoping)
- → Russian: шо́ппинг (šópping), шо́пинг (šóping)
- → Armenian: շոպինգ (šoping)
- → Georgian: შოპინგი (šoṗingi)
- → Serbo-Croatian: šòping, шо̀пинг
- → Thai: ช้อปปิ้ง (chɔ́p-bpîng)
- → Ukrainian: шо́пінг (šópinh)
Translations
activity of buying
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things bought
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Anagrams
- Hoppings, hoppings
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English shopping.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɔ.piŋ/
Audio (file)
Noun
shopping m (plural shoppings)
- shopping (act of shopping)
Further reading
- “shopping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ˈʃɔp.pinɡ/, */ˈʃɔp.pin/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔppinɡ, -ɔppin
- Hyphenation: shòp‧ping
Noun
shopping m (invariable)
- shopping
References
- shopping in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʂɔ.piŋk/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔpiŋk
- Syllabification: sho‧pping
Noun
shopping m inan
- shopping (leisure activity of going shopping)
- Synonyms: kupowanie, sprawunki, zakupy
Declension
Declension of shopping
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | shopping | shoppingi |
| genitive | shoppingu | shoppingów |
| dative | shoppingowi | shoppingom |
| accusative | shopping | shoppingi |
| instrumental | shoppingiem | shoppingami |
| locative | shoppingu | shoppingach |
| vocative | shoppingu | shoppingi |
Further reading
- shopping in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- shopping in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from shopping, based on shopping center.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃɔ.pĩ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʃɔ.pĩɡ/
Noun
shopping m (plural shoppings)
- shopping center
- mall
Romanian
Etymology
From English shopping.
Noun
shopping n (uncountable)
- shopping
Declension
declension of shopping (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) shopping | shoppingul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) shopping | shoppingului |
| vocative | shoppingule | |
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃopin/ [ˈʃo.pĩn]
- Rhymes: -opin
- Syllabification: shop‧ping
Noun
shopping m (plural shoppings)
- shopping center
- shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English shopping, equivalent to shoppa + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /¹ɧɔpɪŋ/
Noun
shopping c (uncountable)
- shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)
Declension
| Declension of shopping | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | shopping | shoppingen | — | — |
| Genitive | shoppings | shoppingens | — | — |
Related terms
- shoppa
- shop