seller

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/

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

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.

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger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