GROCERY STORE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A marketplace where groceries are sold

Example:

the grocery store included a meat market

Synonyms:

food market; grocery; grocery store; market

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("grocery store" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Meronyms (parts of "grocery store"):

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grocery store"):

greengrocery (a greengrocer's grocery store)

supermarket (a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods)