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GROCERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer
Synonyms:
foodstuff; grocery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("grocery" is a kind of...):
consumer goods (goods (as food or clothing) intended for direct use or consumption)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grocery"):
greengrocery (groceries sold by a greengrocer)
packaged goods (groceries that are packaged for sale)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A marketplace where groceries are sold
Example:
the grocery store included a meat market
Synonyms:
food market; grocery; grocery store; market
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("grocery" is a kind of...):
market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)
Meronyms (parts of "grocery"):
shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grocery"):
greengrocery (a greengrocer's grocery store)
supermarket (a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods)
Context examples:
Or maybe your father and mother are living—I could set them up in a grocery store or something.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Duke's Daughter paid the butcher's bill, A Phantom Hand put down a new carpet, and the Curse of the Coventrys proved the blessing of the Marches in the way of groceries and gowns.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was the usual two-story corner building, with a saloon and grocery underneath.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He even carried them in his pockets, and reviewed them at odd moments on the street, or while waiting in butcher shop or grocery to be served.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The grocery was below.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He paid two dollars and a half a month rent for the small room he got from his Portuguese landlady, Maria Silva, a virago and a widow, hard working and harsher tempered, rearing her large brood of children somehow, and drowning her sorrow and fatigue at irregular intervals in a gallon of the thin, sour wine that she bought from the corner grocery and saloon for fifteen cents.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I can't speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn't know Daisy then—and I'll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
