# groceries

Pronunciation: say "GROH-suh-reez" US /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/, UK /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/

## Noun

1. Food and other household supplies for sale, the kinds of commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
   - Simple: Food and other things people buy at a store to use at home.
   - _The delivery driver left our groceries on the front porch._
   - _Rising prices have pushed the cost of weekly groceries much higher._
2. Plural of grocery. — plural of grocery (store)
   - Simple: Plural of grocery. Use this when talking about more than one grocery store.
   - _Several family-run groceries still survive on the city's east side._
   - _Most of the old groceries gave way to large supermarket chains._

## Verb

3. Third-person singular simple present of grocery. — third-person singular simple present indicative of grocery
   - Simple: The form of grocery used in the present with he, she, it, or a singular noun such as the dog or water.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/groceries (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).