(British) a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town)

Usage examples of hypermarket.

In the taxi back from the hypermarket, she had studied the map she had bought, quickly finding the village where Claudia said Katriona had been brought up.

I was stood in an alarm-hooting hypermarket car park like a failed angel, wearing a simplistic memory approximation of my clothes.

A Seal CD was playing in the car, as he turned off the roundabout at the foot of the Milton Link, and headed past the hypermarket, out towards East Lothian.

She catalogued her town: a library, four pharmacies, three banks, a gymnasium for power-lifting and another that metamorphosed into a billiard hall, a market twice a week, a hypermarket that had opened with feathery widgeon stuffed in the freezer and now sold frozen pizza, a cordon of new pink apartment buildings and cinema on Fridays.

She tried to imagine what it would be like when getting water for the house, going to the hypermarket, all these jobs were no longer services or duties or favours done for others, just her own necessities.

In some countries, shopping centers are anchored by supermarkets and hypermarkets, like the first generation of American shopping centers.

Several European countries have passed laws to restrict the growth of hypermarkets and shopping centers.

To the eye they were three fortysomething slightly-but-not-too-tarty women, the kind you see pushing shopping trolleys around palazzo-style hypermarkets, or in hatchbacks arriving at yoga classes in the local leisure center rather than the kind that congregate at the farthest table in bars to drink vodka and laugh boorishly.

Then she had returned to England to save her native environment from motorways, hypermarkets, forest plantations with non-native species of trees and pollution in all its forms.

Kizuldah heard advertisements for hypermarkets, toilet paper, and clubs that could play Airfiles on giant TV screens.

American housewives used the food department of these hypermarkets to buy all that was necessary for their families for a week, since most of it would keep fresh in fridges or freezers.

There were a couple of bullet holes in the tailgate of his Subaru from where Sam had tried to sneak across the border on a rural back road he'd heard that things were even cheaper in the ex-east than in the hypermarkets of France.

A satellite town like Redditch, growing as Birmingham grew, didn’t need theatres, it needed offices, hypermarkets, warehouses: it needed, to quote the councillors, growth through investment in new industry.