grocer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who owns or works in a shop that sells food and everyday household supplies

   The grocer stacked fresh fruit beside the shop entrance each morning.

From Middle English grocer or grosser, from Anglo-French grossier ("wholesaler"), related to gros ("large; in bulk"). The word originally denoted a merchant who sold goods by the gross, then narrowed to a retailer of food and household provisions.

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