Associations to the word «Woolworth»

Dictionary definition

WOOLWORTH, noun. United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne