grocery
/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi//ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/
grocery noun: retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
Noun
grocery (plural groceries)
- Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
- Synonyms:
- commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
- 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
- Synonyms:
- general store, greengrocer's, grocer's, grocery shop, grocery store, market, supermarket
- 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Verb
grocery (third-person singular simple present groceries, present participle grocerying, simple past and past participle groceried)
- To go grocery shopping.
- We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.1913, George Lee Burton, Tackling Matrimony: To the Men and Girls who Love Each Other More than Ease and Show and Sham
- The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley1967, The New Yorker, volume 43, number 5, page 210
- To furnish with groceries.
- Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people1939, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 47, number 550, page 59
- What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love1998, Ron Rau, “Doing It for Money”, in David Seybold, editor, Seasons of the Angler: A Fisherman's Anthology, page 95
grocery meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
grocery in Hindi
- grocery, grocery store
- परचून parcūn
grocery in Tamil
- பலசரக்கு, மளிகை, மளிகை வியாபாரம்
grocery in Marathi
- grocery
- खाजें khājẽ
grocery in Urdu
- کرانا, کریانہ, پنساری کی دکان, پرچون
More languagesFewer languages
- grocery in Bengali
- মুদিখানা, মুদি দোকান, মুদিখানার জিনিস
- grocery in Telugu
- కిరానా kirānā
- grocery in Malayalam
- പലചരക്ക് palacarakkŭ
- grocery in Kannada
- ಕಿರಾಣಿ, ದಿನಸಿ
- grocery in Gujarati
- કરિયાણું, કરિયાણાનું, કરિયાણાની
Examples of grocery in a sentence
- I was dependent upon others for grocerying and getting to doctor appointments.2012, Hazel Rae Minnick, Living in My Shadow, page 93:
- Sample usage: "If you're going grocerying, pick up some GMO — you know, Goat's Milk, Organic.[2016 July 19, “The word of the week: grocerying”, in StarTribune.com:
Synonyms of grocery
- commodities
- general goods
- groceries
- packaged goods
- general store
- greengrocer's
- grocer's
- grocery shop
- grocery store
- market
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Forms of grocery
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | groceries |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | groceries |
| present participle | grocerying |
| past participle | groceried |
| past | groceried |
Origin of grocery
From Middle English grocerye, equivalent to grocer + -y. Compare gross. Doublet of groceria.
Words formed from grocery
Phrases with grocery
Questions about grocery
- What does grocery mean?
- Grocery means retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
- What is grocery in Hindi?
- Grocery in Hindi is परचून (parcūn). See Grocery meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use grocery in a sentence?
- I was dependent upon others for grocerying and getting to doctor appointments.
- What part of speech is grocery?
- Grocery can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce grocery?
- Grocery is pronounced /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of grocery?
- The plural of grocery is groceries.
Words near grocery in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grocery (page history and authors); परचून (Hindi) (page history and authors); grocery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खाजें (Marathi) (page history and authors); grocery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grocery (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కిరానా (Telugu) (page history and authors); പലചരക്ക് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); grocery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grocery (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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