GROCERY STORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grocery store mean? 

• GROCERY STORE (noun)
  The noun GROCERY STORE has 1 sense:

1. a marketplace where groceries are sold

  Familiarity information: GROCERY STORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROCERY STORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A marketplace where groceries are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

food market; grocery; grocery store; market

Context example:

the grocery store included a meat market

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)

 Context examples 

In the grocery store, avoid cans that are bulging or jars that have cracks or loose lids.

(Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture)

Or maybe your father and mother are living—I could set them up in a grocery store or something.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You gave him a cool nod, and just now you bowed and smiled in the politest way to Tommy Chamberlain, whose father keeps a grocery store.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)