grocer
(noun) a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
grocer (plural grocers)
A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.
grocer (third-person singular simple present grocers, present participle grocering, simple past and past participle grocered)
(uncommon) To sell groceries; to act as a grocer.
Source: Wiktionary
Gro"cer, n. Etym: [Formerly written grosser, orig., one who sells by the gross, or deals by wholesale, fr. F. grossier, marchand grossier, fr. gros large, great. See Gross.]
Definition: A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities. Grocer's itch (Med.), a disease of the akin, caused by handling sugar and treacle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
