Home › Words › S › storeownerstoreownerstoreowner means A person who owns a store (or shop); a shopowner.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, storeowner ranks #30,387 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom store + owner.nounA person who owns a store (or shop); a shopowner.e.g.“Then she is consumed by anxiety when she hears from a storeowner about a nearby bombing that killed four people while she was sleeping.” — 2008 June 13, Ken Johnson, “An Avant-Gardist’s Sparse Stories, in Film and Fragments”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).