About Us

Lexikopoleio (noun) from the Greek lexiko (dictionary) and polo (sell). What better name could there be for the first bookshop in Greece specialising in dictionaries?

With a strong international identity in all our books, in store and on-line, we offer a wide range of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual dictionaries in Greek, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, etc, as well as more diverse languages such as Basque, Georgian, Hebrew, Japanese and Tibetan on more or less every subject: the rain, statistics, the underworld, theatre, symbols, manga, and even dictionaries about dictionaries!

and many books of phrases, idioms, proverbs and slang, etc.

plus: novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays, children’s books and comics in Greek, English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, and more.

at competitive prices: you pay what the book or dictionary would cost in the country where it was published, without additional charges!*

highly competitive prices for Greek books too

and if we don’t have a particular book in one of the above languages, you can order it

Lexikopoleio holds themed events/presentations in various languages with simultaneous interpretation

A welcoming meeting place for friends, professionals and booklovers from all over the world.

* Except books exclusively distributed by Greek wholesalers