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groceria

groceria noun: a Hispanic grocery store.

Noun

groceria (plural grocerias)

  1. (US) A Hispanic grocery store.
    • She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90
    • The action on the block had moved from the individual stoops to the bit of sidewalk in front of a groceria about three-quarters of the way down toward First Avenue.1983, Timothy Cohrs, chapter XII, in Tendencies: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s/Marek, →ISBN, page 210

Forms of groceria

pluralgrocerias
alternative formgrocería

Origin of groceria

Borrowed from United States Spanish grocería, from English grocery.

Questions about groceria

What does groceria mean?
Groceria means a Hispanic grocery store.
What part of speech is groceria?
Groceria is a noun.
What is the plural of groceria?
The plural of groceria is grocerias.

Words near groceria in the dictionary

  1. groceraunts
  2. grocerdom
  3. grocered
  4. groceress
  5. groceresses
  6. groceria
  7. grocerias
  8. groceried
  9. groceries
  10. Groceries Order
  11. grocering

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