Grocery
[groh-suh-ree, grohs-ree] /ˈgroʊ sə ri, ˈgroʊs ri/
noun, plural groceries.
1.
Also called grocery store. a grocer’s store.
2.
Usually, groceries; especially British. grocery. food and other commodities sold by a grocer.
3.
the business of a grocer.
4.
Southwestern U.S.
/ˈɡrəʊsərɪ/
noun (pl) -ceries
1.
the business or premises of a grocer
n.
mid-15c., “goods sold by a grocer” (now groceries, 1630s), earlier the name of the Grocer’s Hall in London (early 15c.), from Old French grosserie, from grossier (see grocer). Meaning “a grocer’s shop” is 1828, American English.
GROCERY. A grocer’s shop. This word is not in the English dictionaries except in the sense of grocer’s ware, such as tea, sugar, spice, etc.; in which sense we also use it in the plural. [Bartlett, “Dictionary of Americanisms,” 1859]
Self-service groceries were a novelty in 1913 when a Montana, U.S., firm copyrighted the word groceteria (with the ending from cafeteria used in an un-etymological sense) to name them. The term existed through the 1920s.
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