What does Grocer mean?

Definitions for Grocer
ˈgroʊ sərgro·cer

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grocernoun

    a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)

Wiktionary

  1. grocernoun

    A person who sells groceries (foodstuffs and household items) retail from a grocery

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. GROCERnoun

    Etymology: This should be written grosser, from gross, a large quantity; a grocer originally being one who dealt by wholesale; or from grossus, a fig, which their present state seems to favour.

    A grocer is a man who buys and sells tea, sugar and plumbs and spices for gain. Isaac Watts, Logick.

    But still the offspring of your brain shall prove
    The grocer ’s care, and brave the rage of Jove. Samuel Garth.

ChatGPT

  1. grocer

    A grocer is a person or business that sells food and other products that are used in the home. They typically operate in a store, market, or online platform, offering a variety of items such as fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meats, canned and packaged goods, household items, and sometimes non-food products.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Grocernoun

    a trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities

  2. Etymology: [Formerly written grosser, orig., one who sells by the gross, or deals by wholesale, fr. F. grossier, marchand grossier, fr. gros large, great. See Gross.]

Wikidata

  1. Grocer

    A grocer is a bulk seller of food. Beginning as early as the 14th century, a grocer was a dealer in comestible dry goods such as spices, peppers, sugar, and cocoa, tea and coffee. These items were bought in bulk, hence the term grocer from the French "grossier" meaning wholesaler, this term derived from Medieval Latin "grossarius" from which we also derive the word gross. As increasing numbers of staple foodstuffs became available in cans and other less-perishable packaging, the trade expanded its province. Today, grocers deal in a wide range of staple food-stuffs including such perishables as meats, produce and dairy products. Such goods are, hence, groceries. In the United States and United Kingdom, supermarkets and convenience stores are sometimes described as grocery businesses, or simply grocers. The early supermarkets began as chains of grocer's shops. Clarence Saunders of Memphis, Tennessee invented the self-service grocery store with open stock in 1916, for which he received a US patent. Prior to this change in the way of doing business, the customer of a grocer would walk up to a counter or display and ask for the food items they wanted to purchase, or hand over a grocery list, as an order that the grocer or other clerks would then fill and charge the customer for.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Grocer

    grōs′ėr, n. a dealer in tea, sugar, &c.—n. Groc′ery (generally used in pl.), articles sold by grocers. [Earlier grosser or engrosser, a wholesale dealer; O. Fr. grossiergros, great.]

Etymology and Origins

  1. Grocer

    A term derived from the same root as Gross, “the great hundred,” and applied to a provision dealer who in former times was the only trader rejoicing in the monopoly of dealing in large quantities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Grocer in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Grocer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Grocer in a Sentence

  1. Flavio Volpe:

    I’ll take my hairstyling advice from my barber, I’ll take my produce advice from my grocer and I suggest you get your automotive advice from your car guy.

  2. Alex Hill:

    Locally, we've seen grocer flight, you can find Kroger stores in a ring around the city, but none inside the border of Detroit.

  3. Kevin McCarthy:

    When The Lakeland , Florida-based grocer go out to Monument 3 and The Lakeland , Florida-based grocer talk to Border Patrol agents, it’s not just people from Mexico or Honduras or El Salvador, they are now finding people from Yemen, Iran, Turkey, people on the terrorist watch list they are catching and they are rushing it all at once.

  4. Polly Adler:

    What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

  5. Samia Mohamed:

    When we ask the grocer he says there's nothing but sugar. Every day he says, tomorrow, tomorrow, but we are half way through the month now and it's not resolved, prices elsewhere are expensive. We don't know what to do.

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