Definition

Noun: A retail establishment that primarily sells food and other household goods for daily domestic use. It is a store where consumers can purchase groceries, which typically include fresh produce, meat, dairy products, canned and packaged foods, and often non-food items like cleaning supplies.

Usage

This noun is used to refer to the physical location or business itself. It is commonly preceded by articles like "a," "the," or possessive determiners like "my," "our." - I need to stop by the grocery store on my way home. - There's a new grocery store opening downtown next month.

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "to run a grocery store": to own or manage such a business.
  • My grandparents ran a grocery store for forty years.
• The term can be used attributively (like an adjective) before another noun.
  • We parked in the grocery store parking lot.

Variants and Related Words

• Grocery (noun): Can refer to the store itself (chiefly North American) or, more commonly in plural form (groceries), to the food and other goods sold there.
  • I put the groceries away.
• Supermarket (noun): A large, self-service grocery store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise organized into aisles.
• Greengrocer (noun, chiefly UK): A store or a person selling fresh vegetables and fruit.

Synonyms

• Supermarket
• Food market
• Food store

Related Phrases

• "corner grocery store": A small, often family-owned grocery store, typically in a neighborhood.
  • The corner grocery store is a neighborhood institution.

Noun

1. a marketplace where groceries are sold
   • the grocery store included a meat market