What does Grocery mean?

Definitions for Grocery
ˈgroʊ sə ri, ˈgroʊs rigro·ce·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grocery store, grocery, food market, marketnoun

    a marketplace where groceries are sold

    "the grocery store included a meat market"

  2. grocery, foodstuffnoun

    (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer

Wiktionary

  1. grocerynoun

    Usually groceries; retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

  2. grocerynoun

    A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Grocerynoun

    Grocers ware, such as tea; sugar; raisins; spice.

    Etymology: from grocer.

    His troops, being now in a country where they were not expected, met with many cart-loads of wine, grocery, and tobacco. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

ChatGPT

  1. grocery

    A grocery refers to a store or shop where food and other household items are sold. It can also refer to the items themselves that are purchased from such a store. Groceries typically include products like fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meats, canned goods, toiletries, cleaning supplies and other consumables.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Grocerynoun

    the commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense

  2. Grocerynoun

    a retail grocer's shop or store

  3. Etymology: [F. grosserie wholesale. See Grocer.]

Etymology and Origins

  1. Grocery

    An Americanism for a grocer’s store or shop. Also used in the plural sense for commodities dealt in by a grocer; corresponding to our “groceries.”

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Grocery in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Grocery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Grocery in a Sentence

  1. Veronica Escobar:

    There's going to come a time when families just you know need to be in a normal community, not on a military installation where they can go to a grocery store, where they can interact with the greater community and enjoy amenities in a greater community and go to work.

  2. Bita Moghaddam:

    If you think about going to the grocery store right now, there's a fair amount of planning consciously or subconsciously — what times will be less crowded, do I really need to go, and should I go, most of us didn't think of going to a grocery store as a dangerous thing before, yet now it has become an anxiety-provoking process.

  3. Errol Alden:

    A family vacation to an amusement park - or a trip to the grocery store, a football game or school - should not result in children becoming sickened by an almost 100 percent preventable disease, we are fortunate to have an incredibly effective tool that can prevent our children from suffering. That is so rare in medicine.

  4. Phil Lempert:

    From farms to food makers to grocery stores, it's across the board, during the pandemic, these operations have had to implement social distancing protocols and they're not really built for that and it has impacted production.

  5. Tyah Amoy-Roberts:

    We urge them to take a look at this agenda, we cannot allow mass shootings in grocery stores, churches, shopping malls, and schools to be the new normal.

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