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Definition: Grocery Store |
Grocery StoreNoun1. A marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Grocery StoreSynonyms: food market (n), grocery (n), market (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Provision | Grocery shop, grocery store. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grocery Store |
| English words defined with "grocery store": food market ♦ greengrocery, grocery ♦ market ♦ supermarket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grocery store": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
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Screenplays | Would it kill you to go to the grocery store every once in a while? (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing. (Mildred Pierce; writing credit: James M. Cain; Ranald MacDougall) | |
Lyrics | Met my old lover in the grocery store (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) | |
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Several shots of a hispanic man, in a grocery store, reading the nutritional labeling on the jars of yogurt and peanut butter. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | A man considers 2 cuts of red meat in a grocery store. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
![]() | Interior view of grocery store in Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Unidentified grocery store, probably in Germany. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Grocery store, Luxembourg. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Sheridan, Montana. Grocery store. Sheridan is a trading center for a cattle and agricultural and mining section. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Copenhagen, Denmark. The doorway of a grocery store. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Facade of a grocery store, New Orleans or Charleston, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The grocery store, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Grocery store of Fred Gouer, 117 Hare St., Baltimore. Exterior of Fred Gouer's grocery store. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He walked up to the concrete highway and across the pavement to the grocery store. |
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Health | For children, doctors often recommend a special rehydration solution that contains the nutrients they need. You can buy this solution in the grocery store without a prescription. (references) | |
Business | An example of this is the giant grocery store ALDI, who have cashed in on their name to sell hundreds of thousand of good quality no-name computers and peripherals such as printers. (references) | |
Economic History | Hong Kong | Demand for grocery store products, meats, poultry, eggs and fresh fruit continues to be very strong. (references) |
Hong Kong | In recent years, however, buying habits are shifting and many more American items are now available on local grocery store shelves. (references) | |
Hong Kong | There is excellent potential growth in Hong Kong's retail food market for U.S. grocery store items, particularly new and different items, as food retail outlets continue to increase and diversify. (references) | |
Travel | Latvia | POS terminals are in almost every large department and grocery store, hotels, restaurants. (references) |
Indonesia | Imported meats, vegetables, and packaged foods are readily available from most stores in the Hero grocery store chain (locations through out Jakarta), at Sogo in the Plaza Indonesia/Grand Hyatt complex, and at Kem Chicks in the Kemang district. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Regis Philbin | I was in a grocery store the other day, at the checkout there, at the magazines, and there's Oprah's magazine. Oprah on the cover. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "grocery store"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asturian | ultramarinos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cebuano | groseri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chamorro | metkáo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | handil (business, commerce, shop, store, trade, transaction, turnover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | winkel (boutique, shop, store). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gemischtwarenhandlung, lebensmittelgeschäft (grocer's, grocery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | élelmiszerbolt (food store, grocery), élelmiszer-áruház (food store). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inuktitut | niqitaaqvik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 食料"店 (grocer), 食料"商 , 食"店 , 乾物屋 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょくひ"て", しょくりょうひ"しょう, しょくりょうひ"て" (grocer), か"ぶつや. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kongo | stowa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mohawk | tsi yekhwahninons. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocerygray orestay mercearia (chandlery, grocer's, grocery), armazm. (various references) mercand de legumes. (various references) stizun da victualias. (various references) epicerie. (various references) продовольственный магазин. (various references) faleoloa. (various references) bakalnica (bodega, grocery). (various references) la bodega, bodegón (cantina, dak bungalow, still life, taproom), bodega (cabaret, canteen, cavern, cellar, dinette, grocers, grocery, package store, pantry, stowage, vault, warehouse, wine cellar). (various references) bakaleяa (r) (groceries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-o-o-r-r-r-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: secretory. | |
-4 letters: corsetry, corteges, creosote, erectors, oysterer, resorter, restorer, retrorse, secretor, sorcerer. | |
-5 letters: cooters, cortege, coyotes, erector, greyest, grocers, grocery, oocytes, rectors, rectory, regrets, rescore, restore, rooster, rooters, royster, scooter, scrooge, sorcery, stroyer, terrors, toreros. | |
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