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Grocery vs Delicatessen - What's the difference?

grocery | delicatessen |

As nouns the difference between grocery and delicatessen

is that grocery is retail foodstuffs and other household supplies while delicatessen is a shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.

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

    delicatessen

    English

    (wikipedia delicatessen)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
  • (plural only) Delicacies; exotic or expensive foods.

    • Derived terms

    * deli

    Related terms

    * delicacy

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