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groceries

Syllables: gro·cer·iesUK/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz//ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/

groceries noun: retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store. Also the plural of grocery.

Noun

groceries pl (plural only, attributive grocery)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
    • She carried a sack of groceries in from her car and placed it on the kitchen table.
    • Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time

Also used as

groceries is also the plural of grocery.

groceries is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of grocery.

groceries meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Gujarati

groceries in Hindi

commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery
किराना kirānā

groceries in Tamil

மளிகைப் பொருள்கள்

groceries in Malayalam

commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery
പലചരക്ക് palacarakkŭ

groceries in Gujarati

કરિયાણા
More languagesFewer languages
groceries in Nepali
किराना kirānā
groceries in Indonesian
belanjaan

Forms of groceries

attributivegrocery

Phrases with groceries

Questions about groceries

What does groceries mean?
Groceries means retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
What is groceries in Hindi?
Groceries in Hindi is किराना (kirānā). See Groceries meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is groceries?
Groceries is a noun.
How do you pronounce groceries?
Groceries is pronounced /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ (UK).

Words near groceries in the dictionary

  1. groceress
  2. groceresses
  3. groceria
  4. grocerias
  5. groceried
  6. groceries
  7. Groceries Order
  8. grocering
  9. grocerly
  10. grocers
  11. grocery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: groceries (page history and authors); groceries (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); groceries (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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