Meanings
- A five-and-dime store in the United States.
- A major high-street retail chain in the United Kingdom until the late 2000s.
[…] she thought that to allow the masses power would be to usher in a kind of Woolworth's world of vulgarity.
2008, Angelica Goodden, Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile, page 981 more example
We passed through an inner courtyard overladen with fake wrought-iron railings and accents badly in need of a paint job, evoking a kind of Woolworth's Vieux Carré.
1989, The Advocate, numbers 515-521, page 28Synonyms: Woolies
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Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA major high-street retail chain in the United Kingdom until the late 2000s.
Origin
After the F. W. Woolworth Company, named for its founder, Frank Winfield Woolworth.
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