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Grocery vs Crockery - What's the difference?

grocery | crockery |

As nouns the difference between grocery and crockery

is that grocery is retail foodstuffs and other household supplies while crockery is plates, dishes and other eating and serving tableware, usually made of some ceramic material.

grocery

English

(wikipedia grocery)

Noun

(groceries)
  • (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
  • * 1776:
    • Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
  • * 1850 , '', ''The present time
    • Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
  • A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
  • * 1854:
    • I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery , the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

    Usage notes

    When referring to goods, the singular form is primarily used attributively, as in a grocery bill, a grocery list, etc. The plural form, groceries, is much more frequently used to refer to actual goods, especially in the US.

    Synonyms

    * (retail foodstuffs and household supplies) commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods * (store that sells groceries) general store, grocery store, market, supermarket

    Related terms

    * greengrocer * grocer * groceries

    References

    crockery

    English

    Noun

  • Plates, dishes and other eating and serving tableware, usually made of some ceramic material.
  • Crocks, earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology) * Oxford English Dictionary.