seller

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

   Alisha was a seller of fine books.

2. 2
   noun

   Something which sells.

   Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.

3. 3
   noun

   someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

4. 4
   noun

   Obsolete spelling of cellar.

5. 5
   name

   An English and Scottish topographic surname, derived from any of several places named Sell.

6. 6
   name

   An English and Scottish occupational surname for a saddler, or for a person who sells things.

7. 7
   name

   An English and Scottish metonymic surname for someone who worked in a cellar.

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”).