Grocery vs Seller - What's the difference?
grocery | seller |
(usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
* 1776:
* 1850 , '', ''The present time
A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
* 1854:
Someone who sells; a vender; a clerk
Something which sells
As a noun grocery
is (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.As a proper noun seller is
an english and scottish topographic surname, derived from either of several places named sell.grocery
English
(wikipedia grocery)Noun
(groceries)- Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
- 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?
- 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, supermarketReferences
seller
English
Etymology 1
From (sell) + (-er).Noun
(en noun)- Alisha was a seller of fine books.
- Two of the books Alisha authored had become banner sellers .