Groceries vs Provender - What's the difference?
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The commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery.
Multiple retailers of groceries.
Food, especially for livestock.
* 1663 ,
An edible material that provides sustenance.
As nouns the difference between groceries and provender
is that groceries is the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery while provender is food, especially for livestock.groceries
English
Noun
(head) (p)- She carried a sack of groceries in from the car and set it on the kitchen table.
- There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither looked very profitable.
provender
English
Noun
(en-noun)- He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender , wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
