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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grocery \Gro"cer*y\, n.; pl {Groceries}. [F. grosserie wholesale. See {Grocer}.] 1. 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. 2. A retail grocer's shop or store. [U. S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: grocery n 1: a store where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [syn: {grocery store}, {market}] 2: (usually plural) commodities sold by a grocer [syn: {foodstuff}]
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