GROCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grocer mean? 

• GROCER (noun)
  The noun GROCER has 1 sense:

1. a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)

  Familiarity information: GROCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("grocer" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grocer"):

greengrocer (a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables)

 Context examples 

Not since with Joe, at Shelly Hot Springs, with the one exception of the wine he took with the Portuguese grocer, had Martin had a drink at a public bar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The milkman, baker, grocer, and butcher inquired how she did, poor Mrs. Hummel came to beg pardon for her thoughtlessness and to get a shroud for Minna, the neighbors sent all sorts of comforts and good wishes, and even those who knew her best were surprised to find how many friends shy little Beth had made.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then, at a grocer's shop, we bought an egg and a slice of streaky bacon; which still left what I thought a good deal of change, out of the second of the bright shillings, and made me consider London a very cheap place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In doing this he would satisfy everybody—the grocer, his sister, Ruth, and even Maria, to whom he owed a month's room rent.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As a result, having exhausted his credit with the tradesmen (though he had increased his credit with the grocer to five dollars), his wheel and suit of clothes went back to the pawnbroker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He noted it was the best wine the grocer had in stock.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As for Maria, Martin rose in her estimation a full hundred per cent, and had the Portuguese grocer witnessed that afternoon carriage-call he would have allowed Martin an additional three-dollars-and-eighty-five-cents' worth of credit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On the other hand, practical common sense ruled that he should cash it with his grocer and thereby make an impression that would later result in an increase of credit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then it came to him that it was the grocer's bill, and that these were his bills flying around on the drum of the mangle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As he tore the envelope open, every item of all his debts surged in his brain—$3.85 to the grocer; butcher $4.00 flat; baker, $2.00; fruit store, $5.00; total, $14.85.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)