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Webster 1913 Edition
Grocery
1.
The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; – in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
A deal box . . . to carry
groceries
in. Goldsmith.
The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought
grocery
and millinery. Macaulay.
2.
A retail grocer’s shop or store.
[U. S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Grocery
GRO'CERY
,Noun.
1.
The commodities sold by grocers; usually in the plural.Definition 2024
grocery
grocery
English
a grocery
Noun
grocery (plural groceries)
- (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
- Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
- 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
- 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Usage notes
When referring to goods, the singular form is primarily used attributively, as in a grocery bill, a grocery list, etc. The plural form, groceries, is much more frequently used to refer to actual goods, especially in the US.
Synonyms
- (retail foodstuffs and household supplies): commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods
- (store that sells groceries): general store, grocery store, market, supermarket
Related terms
Translations
retail foodstuffs and other household supplies — see groceries
shop or store that sells groceries
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