Definition & Meaning | English word WATERSTONES

Definitions of WATERSTONES

1. plural of waterstone.

Examples of Using WATERSTONES in a Sentence

• Waterstones also owns Hodges Figgis (the oldest bookshop in Ireland, founded in 1768), Hatchards (the oldest bookshop in the UK, founded in 1797), and Foyles (a chain of seven bookshops in England).
• Other major retailers include: Boots, Hotel Chocolat, Poundland, WH Smith, Ann Summers, Lush, Waterstones, Lego, and Apple.
• This latter is more soluble and mobile than iron oxides and can further recrystallize to form larger crystals sometimes called selenite (coming from the moon, but not related to selenium, although the etymology is the same), or "waterstones".
• The hillock is capped by a small outcrop of sandstones assigned to the Tarporley Siltstone Formation (and formerly known as the Keuper Waterstones).
• This currently comprises a Waterstones bookshop, a training and recruitment facility, and Costa Coffee shop on the upper mall, and on the lower mall a row of boutique retailers including The Daily Grind, Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shop, Gusto & Daisy's Dog Emporium leading out to a suite of restaurants including Carluccio's, PizzaExpress and Loch Fyne Restaurants amongst others.
• It reached number two in the Sunday Times bestsellers list and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize of 2022, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Waterstones Book of the Year.
• The Competition Commission provisionally cleared HMV Group, through Waterstones, for takeover of the Ottakar's group on 30 March 2006, stating that the takeover would "not result in a substantial lessening of competition".
• A wide pedestrianised shopping street, with flagship store John Lewis, also on this street; Pret a Manger, EE (formerly Orange), Morphe, JD Sports, Footasylum, Tessuti, Starbucks, Waterstones (the entrance is at the back), Urban Outfitters, Hugo Boss, The North Face, etc.
• During one of the short-term jobs he submitted some scripts to the BBC, which led to him writing Doctor Who stories, and finally, while working at Waterstones, Aaronovitch published his first Rivers of London novel, which rapidly became a word-of-mouth success, enabling him to write full-time.
• The south mall contains a large Decathlon store, Caffè Nero, Søstrene Grene, Claire's, EE-BT, Nationwide Building Society, Pandora and Waterstones.
• In the UK, it was joint winner of the Dolman Prize for Travel Writing, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize (the "non-fiction Booker"), the Jan Michalski Prize for World Literature, the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction, the Warwick Prize for Writing, the Waterstones Book of the Year, and three other prizes.
• Nearby Beeston Castle hill, effectively an outlier of the range with similar geology, is topped by a small outcrop of the Tarporley Siltstone Formation (formerly known as the Keuper Waterstones).
• Rothschild Assurance plc (1991–97), English Partnerships (1993-2004), BSkyB (1994-2001), Lazard Bros (1997-2002), St James's Place Capital (1997-2002), and Waterstones (2011-2016).
• Castlepoint has a wide range of retailers including Sainsburys, TKMaxx, CeX, H&M, WHSmith, ASDA, B&Q, Clarks, Waterstones, Superdrug, Marks and Spencer, Foot Locker, Accessorize, River Island, Mountain Warehouse, JD Sports, New Look, Boots, The Entertainer, Mango and Easy Bathrooms.
• As of October 2019 the tenants are as follows- JD, The Body Shop, Bagel Nash, Kings, The Fragrance Shop, Little Lotus, New Look, Thomsons, Newspoint, TK Maxx, Claires, Next, Clarks, O2, Clintons, Office, Vodafone, Costa Coffee, Waterstones, EE, Panini Shack, River Island, F.

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