Grocery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grocery \Gro"cer*y\, n.; pl. {Groceries}. [F. grosserie
     wholesale. See {Grocer}.]
     1. The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices,
        etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural
        form, in this sense.
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              A deal box . . . to carry groceries in. --Goldsmith.
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              The shops at which the best families of the
              neighborhood bought grocery and millinery.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. A retail grocer's shop or store. [U. S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grocery
       n 1: a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store
            included a meat market" [syn: {grocery store}, {food
            market}, {market}]
       2: (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer [syn: {foodstuff}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "grocery":
     appetizing store, bakery, bakeshop, bodega, butcher shop, creamery,
     dairy, deli, delicatessen, food shop, food store, fruit stand,
     grocery store, groceteria, health food store, meat market,
     pork store, superette, supermarket, vegetable store