minimart

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noun

A convenience store.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounminimart (plural minimarts)

plural minimarts

  1. A convenience store.

    I went to the minimart…It’s about a fifteen minute walk both ways. But I didn’t wanna drive cause I was really wasted.

    2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck)
    1 more example

    The joke is that these two men are sitting in front of a gas station that has been transformed into a minimart capable of supplying anything—even the kosher pickled herring requested by an Orthodox Jew.

    1988 July 15, Tom Valeo, “Happy Happy Good Show”, in Chicago Reader

    Synonyms: minimarket, mini-market

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA convenience store.

Origin

  1. Italianminiatura
  2. Englishminiature
  3. Englishmini-
  4. Englishmart
  5. Englishminimart

From mini- + mart.

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APA

minimart. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minimart

MLA

“minimart.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minimart. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “minimart,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minimart.

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