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Definition of Department Store

Department Store

  1. A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.
Dominic Monaghan

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
Hilary Mantel

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.
Helen Reddy

Department Store Translations

department store in Afrikaans is afdelingswinkel
department store in German is Warenhaus
department store in Italian is emporio
department store in Spanish is galerias

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