grocery

Etymology
From. Compare. .

Noun

 * 1)  Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
 * 2) * 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
 * Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
 * 1) A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
 * 2) * 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
 * I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
 * 1) * 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
 * I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
 * I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

Usage notes
When referring to goods, the singular form is primarily used attributively, as in a grocery bill, a grocery list, etc. The plural form,, is much more frequently used to refer to the goods themselves, rather than to multiple stores that sell them, especially in the U.S. Furthermore, a single grocery item (purchased at the store) cannot be called a grocery (that is, the word groceries is a plurale tantum in that sense, albeit not in its "multiple stores" sense).

Translations

 * Arabic: بِقَالَة, حَانُوت بَقَّال
 * Armenian: մթերային խանութ
 * Azerbaijani: baqqal
 * Belarusian: бакале́я
 * Bulgarian: бакали́я, бакалница
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 副食商店, 食品商店
 * Czech:, koloniál,
 * Danish:, dagligvareforretning, , brugs
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: handil
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, supermercado,
 * Georgian: საბაკალეო მაღაზია, საბაკალეო საქონლის მაღაზია, საბაყლო მაღაზია
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: કરિયાણાની દુકાન
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पंसारी की दुकान
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Ido: spicerio
 * Irish: siopa grósaera
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 食料品店, 乾物屋
 * Korean: 식료품점(食料品店)
 * Latin: macellum
 * Macedonian: бакалница
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: dagligvarebutikk, storsenter, landhandel
 * Persian:
 * Polish: sklep spożywczy, spożywczak
 * Portuguese:, , mercado/mercadinho, , ,
 * Punjabi: ہَٹّی
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, продукто́вый магази́н,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bùth grosaireachd
 * Spanish: abarrotería, abastecedor  , abasto  , almacén  , bodega  , colmado  , despensa  , pulpería  , tienda de abarrotes  , tienda de barrio  , tienda de ultramarinos  , trucha  , ,  tienda de ultramarinos
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: abaseriya
 * Tajik: баққолӣ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: שפּײַזקראָם, באַקאַליי־קראָם

Verb

 * 1)  To go grocery shopping.
 * 2)  To furnish with groceries.
 * 1)  To furnish with groceries.
 * 1)  To furnish with groceries.
 * 1)  To furnish with groceries.
 * 1)  To furnish with groceries.