grocería

A form of groceria — A Hispanic grocery store.

Meanings

noungrocería (plural grocerías)

plural grocerías

  1. alternativeAlternative form of groceria.

    She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.

    1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90
    2 more examples

    It’s a street like hundreds of others in New York, it’s got a subway stop on it, it’s mostly Spanish up there now I think, and it’s probably got cigar stores and grocerías and Spanish graffiti, which looks the same as English graffiti, since you can’t read any of it anyway.

    1990, Robert Chibka, chapter 6, in A Slight Lapse, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 182

    What little I eat comes from a grocería about ten miles down Highway 31, a place where the migrants buy their food.

    2013, Will Ludwigsen, “The Ghost Factory”, in In Search Of and Others, Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 124
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APA

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“grocería.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grocer%C3%ADa. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grocería,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grocer%C3%ADa.

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