grocery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a marketplace where groceries are sold

   the grocery store included a meat market

2. 2
   noun

   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...

3. 3
   noun

   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...

4. 4
   verb

   To go grocery shopping.

   We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.

5. 5
   verb

   To furnish with groceries.

   Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people

6. 6
   noun

   (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer

Etymology

From Middle English grocerye, equivalent to grocer + -y. Compare gross. Doublet of groceria.