seller

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/ enPR: sĕl-ər
• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
• Homophones: cellar, sellar

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”).

seller (plural sellers)

1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

   Alisha was a seller of fine books.

   • 2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2023:

     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.

   • 2020 November 24, Rishi Iyengar, “Amazon wins legal fight against eBay over alleged seller poaching”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87:

     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.

Alternative forms.

seller (plural sellers)

1. Obsolete spelling of cellar.

• Ellers, ellers, resell

From German Sellerie.

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

1. celery

• seller in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From selle +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.le/ ~ /se.le/

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• Homophone: sceller

seller

1. to saddle
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLVII, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     Appelant à part l’hôtelier, ils lui ordonnèrent de seller Rossinante et de bâter le grison, ce qu’il fit avec diligence.

     Calling aside the innkeeper, they ordered him to saddle Rossinante and to put a packsaddle on the donkey, which he did with diligence.

• selle
• desseller

• “seller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

seller

1. alternative form of sellere

selle (“saddle”) +‎ -er

seller

1. (Jersey) to saddle

• sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
• sellyi m (“saddler”)

seller

1. indefinite plural of selle m or f
2. indefinite plural of selle m

seller m

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

seller

1. present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

seller f

1. indefinite plural of selle

Cognate to German selbig (“the same (one)”).

seller

1. that, that one

seller

1. that
   • 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:

     sell Haus datt driwwe

     that house over there

     […]

     In sellem alde Glaawe maag en bissel Waahret schtecke.

     In that old belief there may be a bit of truth.

seller

1. dative feminine of seller: that, to that

• Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204