grocery

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

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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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