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GROCERY STORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 store" 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 store"):
shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grocery store"):
greengrocery (a greengrocer's grocery store)
supermarket (a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods)
