radioteria

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noun

A store that sells radios.

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Meanings

nounradioteria (plural radioterias)

plural radioterias

  1. USdatedrareA store that sells radios.

    Visit the radioteria, something new.

    1925 March 25, Chicago Daily News
    2 more examples

    The lubratorium (a place for greasing motorcars) is marching eastward from the Pacific Coast, and with it comes the chowmeinery and the radioteria.

    1935, The New Yorker (volume 11, part 2, page 33)

    I finally went into one radioteria and had the salesman demonstrate several of the transistor all-wave sets that he had in stock.

    1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 38

Origin

Compare cafeteria.

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APA

radioteria. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radioteria

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“radioteria.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radioteria. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “radioteria,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radioteria.

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