groceries

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/, /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹɪz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/, also (sometimes proscribed, see grocery) /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃɹiz/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: gro‧cer‧ies

Noun

groceries pl (plural only, attributive grocery)

1. Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.

   She carried a sack of groceries in from her car and placed it on the kitchen table.

   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?

Translations

commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: مَقاضي f pl (magāḍi)

• Catalan: queviures (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雜貨 / 杂货 (zh) (záhuò), 買菜 / 买菜 (zh) (mǎicài)

• Dutch: boodschappen (nl)
• Finnish: päivittäistavarat pl, elintarvikkeet (fi) pl (foods)
• French: courses (fr) f pl, provisions (fr) f pl
• Galician: ultramarinos (gl) m or m pl
• German: Lebensmittel (de) n pl
• Greek: ψώνια (el) n pl (psónia)
• Hawaiian: mea ʻai
• Hebrew: מִצְרָכִים (he) m pl (mitsrakhím), קְנִיּוֹת f pl (k'niyót)
• Hindi: किराना (hi) m (kirānā)
• Hungarian: vásárolt holmik, élelmiszerek (hu)
• Ido: spicaro
• Indonesian: belanjaan (id)
• Italian: spesa (it) f
• Latin: obsōnia n pl
• Malayalam: പലചരക്ക് (ml) (palacarakkŭ)
• Nepali: किराना (ne) (kirānā)
• Polish: artykuły spożywcze nvir pl, żywność (pl) f, spożywka (pl) f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: compras (pt)
• Romanian: alimente n pl, provizii f pl
• Russian: (продовольственные (ru) (prodovolʹstvennyje)) продукты (ru) pl (produkty)
• Scottish Gaelic: grosaireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian: намирнице f pl (namirnice), namirnice (sh) f pl
• Spanish: comestibles (es) m pl, abarrotes (es) m pl, compras (es) f pl, alimentos (es) m pl, ultramarinos (es) m pl, víveres (es) m pl, vitualla (es) f, vituallas (es) f pl

Noun

groceries

1. plural of grocery (store)

   There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither of them had tasty food.

Verb

groceries

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of grocery