grocery Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

F. grosserie wholesale. See Grocer.

plural Groceries

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.;