grocery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a marketplace where groceries are sold
    food market; market; grocery store.
    • the grocery store included a meat market
  2. noun (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer
    foodstuff.

WordNet


Gro"cer*y noun
Etymology
F. grosserie wholesale. See Grocer.
Wordforms
plural Groceries
Definitions
  1. The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
    A deal box . . . to carry groceries in. Goldsmith.
    The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery. Macaulay.
  2. A retail grocer's shop or store. U.s.;

Webster 1913