grocery
nounEtymology
From Middle English grocerye, equivalent to grocer + -y. Compare gross. Doublet of groceria.
- inherited from grocerye
Definitions
Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
- 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...
A shop or store that sells groceries
A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
- 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...
To go grocery shopping.
- We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.
- The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley
- I was dependent upon others for grocerying and getting to doctor appointments.
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To furnish with groceries.
- Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people
- What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love
The neighborhood
- neighborgreengrocer
- neighborgrocer
- neighborgroceries
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at grocery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at grocery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at grocery
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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