groceries

• (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

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, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time:

     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?

groceries

1. plural of grocery (store)

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

groceries

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of grocery