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

In the largest county east of the Mississippi, the closest grocery store can easily be an hour away. — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

On the sweet side, several of our editors adore Coop’s dessert sauces, which far exceed the usual grocery store stuff. — Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026

This spacious neighborhood market in East Sacramento has all the grocery store basics. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Fellow delivery workers built a memorial outside the grocery store, according to the station. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 22 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.