Synonyms for grocery store

Grammar : Noun

Spell : groh-suh-ree, grohs-ree

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgroʊ sə ri, ˈgroʊs ri

Définition of grocery store

Origin : mid-15c., "goods sold by a grocer" (now groceries, 1630s), earlier the name of the Grocer's Hall in London (early 15c.), from Old French grosserie, from grossier (see grocer). Meaning "a grocer's shop" is 1828, American English.
GROCERY. A grocer's shop. This word is not in the English dictionaries except in the sense of grocer's ware, such as tea, sugar, spice, etc.; in which sense we also use it in the plural. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]
Self-service groceries were a novelty in 1913 when a Montana, U.S., firm copyrighted the word groceteria (with the ending from cafeteria used in an un-etymological sense) to name them. The term existed through the 1920s.

noun food store

Example sentences :

He looked more like a clerk from a grocery store than the commander of an army.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

Next morning I tried to bribe a boy to get me some food at the grocery store.
Extract from : « The Spoilers of the Valley » by Robert Watson

Hastening to the grocery store he asked the price of the soap.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

The nuts planted were taken at random from a barrel in a grocery store.
Extract from : « Walnut Growing in Oregon » by Various

By the time she had jumped up to be asked "Is this the grocery store?"
Extract from : « Rosemary » by Josephine Lawrence

They went into the place, and found a grocery store and post-office.
Extract from : « A Lieutenant at Eighteen » by Oliver Optic

The baskets come from the grocery store, and my mama makes the cookies.
Extract from : « Policeman Bluejay » by L. Frank Baum

Roy trailed him directly to the grocery store, but did not enter.
Extract from : « The Secret Wireless » by Lewis E. Theiss

I worked for a few weeks in the grocery store, and drove every day.
Extract from : « Five Hundred Dollars » by Horatio Alger

Actually it consisted of a few frame houses and a grocery store.
Extract from : « A Son of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

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