Crossword clues for grocery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grocery \Gro"cer*y\, n.; pl. Groceries. [F. grosserie wholesale. See Grocer.]
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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. A retail grocer's shop or store. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "goods sold by a grocer" (now groceries, 1630s), earlier the name of the Grocer's Hall in London (early 15c.), from Old French grosserie, from grossier (see grocer). Meaning "a grocer's shop" is 1828, American English.\n\nGROCERY. A grocer's shop. This word is not in the English dictionaries except in the sense of grocer's ware, such as tea, sugar, spice, etc.; in which sense we also use it in the plural.
[Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]
\nSelf-service groceries were a novelty in 1913 when a Montana, U.S., firm copyrighted the word groceteria (with the ending from cafeteria used in an un-etymological sense) to name them. The term existed through the 1920s.Wiktionary
n. 1 (context usually groceries English) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. 2 A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
WordNet
n. a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [syn: grocery store, food market, market]
(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer [syn: foodstuff]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "grocery".
Look for them, canned in adobo sauce, in the Mexican foods section of big grocery stores.
Hot Grocery Store Man catches my eye just as I approach the adobo seasoning.
On the way over she stopped at the grocery store and stocked up on 7-Up, Popsicles, and calamine lotion.
Street grew up knowing the story of how Ceese found him in a grocery bag and Miz Smitcher took him in.
The Saturday after his dad brought the deader home, the family ran into a guy at the grocery with whom Joe had never gotten along.
Cassanovas reported it stolen yesterday when he parked it at the Dimond Fred Meyer and forgot the keys in the ignition when he went inside to buy groceries.
She closed the library early and drove fast along the seamless neighborhood streets, passed the bright clumps of all-night megastores packed with tired people buying groceries, lottery tickets, booze and drugs, sweaters, shoes, dinette sets.
Joel Duffle goes through the groceries down to the turkey causes the Broadway spectators some uneasiness, and they are whispering to each other that they only wish the old Nicely-Nicely is in there.
Claudia Westcott, the former proprietor of a grocery where Filer cashed a bad check before he disappeared.
P grocery store was moving across the street to a bigger space, where the Goodyear tire store used to be before they moved into the back of Western Auto.
Occasionally she would go into Sydney, escorted by her silent maid Susan and the sly-faced Harbord, but for the most part groceries and haberdashery items were delivered each week.
There was a grocery store, cartons of fruit and vegetables on the sidewalk, jicama and artichokes, thrilps and fresh fennel.
Life dissolves into countless, consuming routines, nurturing acts and invisible chores: changing diapers, changing clothes, changing crib sheets, nursing, burping, cleaning spit-up, bathing, swaddling, rocking, soothing, singing, smiling, cooing, not to mention grocery shopping, cooking, keeping house, and doing the laundry.
I buy pomace in gallon cans at a local grocery specializing in Mediterranean foods.
Stitches and his assistant carpenters were fitting a new tongue to the wagon by lamplight, Edge climbed inside the wagon by himself, with a lantern, to refold or rehang on the clothes poles what costumes seemed salvageable, and to carry out what other groceries might be dried out and still edible.