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

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word grocery.

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. Arizona Sen.John McCain:

    I'm in the car and grocery store, I'm going for a walk with my daughter and I can put my earbuds in. I listen to podcasts and I do my makeup or like, I'm getting ready in the morning, i just wanted these stories to be as easily accessible as possible to people.

  2. Rochelle Walensky:

    Some people really voted... with enthusiasm to say our health care workers, our frontline workers, people who were vaccinated early, people who work in congregate settings, in correctional facilities, grocery workers, really do merit the vaccine, the question wasn't' yes or no,' the question was' wait or do now,'.

  3. Dan Sundheim:

    We believe that traditional retailers will lead the category online, as their brick and mortar stores are the most effective distribution centers for fulfillment of online grocery orders.

  4. Shannon Watts:

    Despite all of the data and experts at her disposal, [Black] chooses to blame ‘grocery store pornography’ for school shootings, and she doesn’t mean magazines that glorify guns.

  5. Olivier DOULIERY:

    Meanwhile, you can go into Whole Foods, or any grocery store, nothing against Whole Foods … I’m glad I was able to go grocery shopping, but everybody’s touching everything … There’s police directing people in and out of the freaking grocery store.

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