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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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