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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grocer" is a kind of...):
merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grocer"):
greengrocer (a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables)
Context examples:
Martin saw in every line, not the fine Italian hand, but the coarse grocer's fist, of his brother-in-law.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Portuguese grocer, to whom he had hitherto paid cash, called a halt when Martin's bill reached the magnificent total of three dollars and eighty-five cents.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Reluctantly Martin yielded to the claims of the grocer, paying his bill with him in full, and receiving in change a pocketful of jingling coin.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He cashed the first check with the suspicious Portuguese grocer, paying a dollar on account and dividing the remaining two dollars between the baker and the fruit store.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And it was not until she had returned home to North Oakland and conferred with her own kind, and had the Portuguese grocer investigate, that she really knew that she was the owner of the little house in which she had lived and for which she had paid rent so long.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Why don't you trade with me no more? the Portuguese grocer asked Martin that evening, stepping out to hail him when he got off the car; and Martin explained that he wasn't doing his own cooking any more, and then went in and had a drink of wine on the house.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To Mr. Higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity, and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon American institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard-working man to rise—the rise, in his case, which he pointed out unfailingly, being from a grocer's clerk to the ownership of Higginbotham's Cash Store.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Five dollars for five thousand words, ten words for a cent, the market price for art. The disappointment of it, the lie of it, the infamy of it, were uppermost in his thoughts; and under his closed eyelids, in fiery figures, burned the $3.85 he owed the grocer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Portuguese grocer refused him further credit, while the greengrocer, who was an American and proud of it, had called him a traitor to his country and refused further dealings with him—carrying his patriotism to such a degree that he cancelled Martin's account and forbade him ever to attempt to pay it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
