HOW TO PRONOUNCE
groceries
/ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
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What does groceries mean?
noun
- Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
- plural of grocery (store)
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of grocery
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
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I carried in groceries, peeled potatoes, scrubbed the kitchen floor and built fires each evening in the guests' rooms.
Then she neatly covered these improvised vases with the Manila paper from the groceries, tying it with wisps of marshgrass.
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She might not go back for the groceries, but after ordering them would say she would return with the carriage.
She saw the determined little collier buying in the week’s groceries and meat on the Friday nights, and she admired him.
The purchase of waterproof bags gets rid of a lot of tin: the staple groceries do quite as well as London fancy stuff.