grocery store

noun

chiefly US

: a store that sells food and household supplies : supermarket

Examples of grocery store in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If a holiday carol stopped you cold in the grocery store this week, or if hanging a single ornament brought you to tears, nothing is wrong with you. — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026

Lacking some basic cleaning elements, including sanitizer, stopped all food processing and the sale of all open food at a Fort Lauderdale grocery store after a Tuesday inspection. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026

Theoretically, these processes could take the most stubborn, unrecyclable plastics, like grocery store bags or string cheese wrappers, and rebuild them into new products. — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2026

Building permits to transform the 17,000-square-foot space into a grocery store were approved in May, and no changes were proposed to the exterior of the building. — Rick West, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for grocery store

• conquistador
• covenantor
• forevermore
• hereinbefore
• kinetochore
• kwashiorkor
• abhor
• abor
• adore
• afore
• ardour
• ashore

Video

How Do You Pronounce 'Groceries'?

In American English, 'groceries' has several forms of pronunciation. But is one the "correct" way to say it? Editor Serenity Carr breaks down the various kinds of 'groceries.'

TRANSCRIPT

Whether you're a weekend shopper or a Tuesday afternoon one, chances are you buy these at least weekly: grōs-rēs, or maybe you buy grō-sə-rēs, or perhaps you buy grōsh-rēs. We do not judge, in fact, our dictionary says all three pronunciations are just fine.