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Retailer of fruit and vegetables
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greengrocer
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Word definitions for greengrocer in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greengrocer \Green"gro`cer\, n. A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ First, there was the three magazine from the greengrocers. ▪ Not since they found the top half of the greengrocer . ▪ Some fifty yards up the road beyond the greengrocers were two houses having front doorsteps about three feet ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1723, from green "vegetables" + grocer .
Usage examples of greengrocer.
It was lined with tubs of flowers and little shops, many still bowfronted, which had once been greengrocers, ironmongers, and so on.
May I not say that the usual tether of this class, in the way of carnifers, cupbearers, and the rest, does not reach beyond neat-handed Phyllis and the greengrocer?
She had colloquies with the greengrocer about the pennorth of turnips which Mr.
Linley, had paid no more attention to the rules smartly laid down by Sebastian Grimsdale than did anyone else in Ashdown Dean: the greengrocer, the butcher, the librarian.
On the corner of Yedo-cho and Ni-cho-me streets, greengrocers and fishmongers hawked their wares.
He was soon drest, and they sallied forth together into Covent-Garden, where the greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country.
The market was called The Greengrocers Guild and only members with keys could shop there.
And there, as if the big greengrocer in the sky, he who smiles favorably on all such hegiras, had finally come back into the office and noticed Arlo's button lit on the board, and sent her to him--there she stood, limned by the fluorescents of dalliance, lush in the simplicity of her skintight yellow ochre capris, seen through a glass starkly, wrestling with a grocery cart in the immense front window of Ralph's.
While Oskar sang glass, far and near, to pieces, occasionally thawing the frost flowers on the windowpanes, melting icicles and sending them to the ground with a crash, the greengrocer was a man who attacked ice at close quarters, with hand tools.