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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods

Merriam Webster's

noun Usage: often attributive Date: 1933 1. a self-service retail market selling especially foods and household merchandise 2. something resembling a supermarket especially in the variety or volume of its goods or services

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a large self-service store selling foods, household goods, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(supermarkets) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. A supermarket is a large shop which sells all kinds of food and some household goods. Most of us do our food shopping in the supermarket... N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

appetizing store, bakery, bakeshop, bodega, boutique, butcher shop, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, creamery, dairy, deli, delicatessen, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, food shop, food store, fruit stand, general store, grocery, grocery store, groceteria, health food store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, meat market, pork store, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, superette, trading post, variety shop, variety store, vegetable store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house