Deli vs Delicatessen - What's the difference?
deli | delicatessen | Derived terms |
(label) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
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(countable) A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
(plural only) Delicacies; exotic or expensive foods.
Delicatessen is a derived term of deli.
As nouns the difference between deli and delicatessen
is that deli is a shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving while delicatessen is a shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.deli
English
Noun
(en noun)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …, passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.}}
