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Definition: Grocer |
GrocerNoun1. A retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grocer" was first used: 1255. (references) |
Etymology: Grocer \Gro"cer\, noun. [Formerly written grosser, originally, one who sells by the gross, or deals by wholesale, from French grossier, marchand grossier, from gros large, great. See Gross.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Provision | Caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur; jackal, pelican; sutler; (merchant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grocer |
| English words defined with "grocer": dun ♦ foodstuff ♦ greengrocer, grocery ♦ Pepperer ♦ sack. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grocer": SPLIT FIG. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grocer": grocery. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Grocer" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Kolonialwarenhaendler). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Or, a grocer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Peel your bananas before your grocer weighs them (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Corner Grocer (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Grocer Alfred Freese Port Washington, Wis., holds potatoes in front of sign painted on store window encouraging customer not to purchase potatoes. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grocer at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese grocer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | San Augustine, Texas. Mrs. Thomas, the wife of a wholesale grocer, in her kitchen with her maid. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was said that these supplies came from a grocer of the Faubourg Saint Antoine, named Pepin |
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| "Grocer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.27% of the time. "Grocer" is used about 173 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.27% | 170 | 23,898 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.73% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 173 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "grocer": grocer-tory. | |
Ending with "grocer": green-grocer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "grocer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shitës ushqimesh, bakall. (various references) | |
Arabic | السمان, الخضرواتي, البقال. (various references) | |
Basque | dendari. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бакалин. (various references) | |
Chinese | 菜市场, 雜貨商 . (various references) | |
Cornish | spýcer. (various references) | |
Czech | obchodník se smíšeným zbožím. (various references) | |
Dutch | kruidenier. (various references) | |
Esperanto | spicisto. (various references) | |
Farsi | عطار, خواربارفروش , بقال . (various references) | |
French | épicier. (various references) | |
German | krämer (Chandler, grocers, huckster, monger, small shopkeeper), lebensmittelhändler (grocers), Kolonialwarenhändler. (various references) | |
Greek | μπακάλησ, μπακάλης, παντοπώλησ, παντοπώλης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ח ו י (shopkeeper, storekeeper, tradesman), בעל מכולת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szatócs (chandler), fűszeres (chandler, figs, seasoned, spicy). (various references) | |
Italian | droghiere (Chandler). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 食料"店 (grocery store). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょくりょうひ"て" (grocery store). (various references) | |
Korean | 식료' 상인. (various references) | |
Manx | groseyr. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjøpmann (merchant). (various references) | |
Occitan | especièr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocergray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vendeiro, vendedordeespeciarias, merceeiro (chandler). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãcan (campeachy wood, raddle). (various references) | |
Russian | бакалейщик. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bakalin. (various references) | |
Spanish | tendero (grocery, shopkeeper, shopman, storekeeper, tradesman). (various references) | |
Swedish | specerihandlare. (various references) | |
Thai | คนขายของชำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | bakkal (grocery, groceteria). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бакалійник. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chè (unblended), c phê, đường (punch, saccharose, tollable, tollman, way). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Glyciphagus domesticus, Glycyphagus domesticus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | grossus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | grossarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grocer": groceries, grocers, grocery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "grocer": greengrocer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "grocer": greengroceries, greengrocers, greengrocery. (additional references) | |
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"Grocer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Goce, Gocek, gorrer, gracer, gricer, Grober, Groc, groca, grocar, groccer, groce, grocier, Grocyn, groger, groje, groke, groober, grosar, grosche, Groser, groter, grouce, Gruer, rocer, trocar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grocer" (pronounced grō"ser) |
| 5 | g r ō" s er | grosser. |
| 3 | -ō" s er | closer, doser. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: corer, crore, roger. | |
-2 letters: cero, core, ergo, goer, gore, ogre. | |
-3 letters: cog, cor, ego, erg, err, gor, orc, ore, rec, reg, roc, roe. | |
-4 letters: er, go, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: grocers, grocery. | |
+2 letters: scourger. | |
+3 letters: arrogance, cornering, corrugate, groceries, grouchier, paregoric, recording, recorking, rescoring, scourgers, scroggier, scrounger. | |
+4 letters: arrogances, chirurgeon, churchgoer, conferring, correcting, corrigenda, corrigible, corrugated, corrugates, encourager, ergometric, logorrheic, overcharge, overcuring, paregorics, prescoring, recognizer, recoloring, recordings, recovering, recrossing, recrowning, scroungers, scroungier, supercargo. | |
+5 letters: chirurgeons, choreograph, chronologer, churchgoers, cogenerator, coinferring, cointerring, concertgoer, congregator, cordgrasses, correlating, corrigendum, cryosurgeon, cryosurgery, discourager, electrogram, encouragers, gerontocrat, greengrocer, hemorrhagic, hygrometric, microgroove, overarching, overcharged, overcharges, overpricing, procreating, recognizers, reconfigure, reenforcing, reinforcing, renographic, reoccurring, reproaching, reproducing, rerecording, retroacting, retroceding, scaremonger, spectrogram, supercargos, surrogacies, xerographic. | |
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