Grocery Store

  

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Grocery Store

Definition: Grocery Store

Grocery Store

Noun

1. 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 Store

Synonyms: food market (n), grocery (n), market (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Grocery Store

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Provision

Grocery shop, grocery store.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Grocery Store

English words defined with "grocery store": food marketgreengrocery, grocerymarketsupermarket. (references)
Specialty definitions using "grocery store": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Grocery Store

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Grocery Store

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Grocery Store

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Photo Album: Grocery Store

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Grocery Store

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He walked up to the concrete highway and across the pavement to the grocery store.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Grocery Store

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Spoken Usage: Grocery Store

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Grocery Store

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

grocery store

1,733

grocery store superfresh

29

giant grocery store

213

albertson grocery store

28

online grocery store

196

meijers grocery store

28

grocery store coupon

140

whole food grocery store

22

albertsons grocery store

136

dixie grocery store winn

17

kroger grocery store

98

big grocery store y

14

frys grocery store

92

homeland grocery store

13

vons grocery store

80

grocery store topps

12

grocery store top

69

grocery store weis

12

jewel grocery store

62

biggs grocery store

8

fiesta grocery store

55

air bel grocery store

8

acme grocery store

55

field fresh grocery store

7

dominion grocery store

43

copps grocery store

6

aldi grocery store

42

fairway grocery store

5

bilo grocery store

40

grocery store virtual

5

grocery store chain

39

grocery store yoke

4

big bear grocery store

35

brookshire grocery store

3

grocery store thumb tom

32

bioterrorism grocery store

2

farm fresh grocery store

30

aisle grocery store

2

aldis grocery store

30

country grocery store town

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Grocery Store

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

   

Portuguese

  

mercearia (chandlery, grocer's, grocery), armazm. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

mercand de legumes. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

stizun da victualias. (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

epicerie. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

продовольственный магазин. (various references)

   

Samoan

  

faleoloa. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bakalnica (bodega, grocery). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Turkmen 

  

bakaleяa (r) (groceries). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Grocery Store

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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