It is sensibly planned, with a red-brick club on its brow, and farther back a grocer’s and a cemetery, and the bungalows are disposed along roads that intersect at right angles.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— a dealer in staple foodstuffs, meats, produce, and dairy products and usually household supplies
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Macmillan
— someone whose job is to sell food and other goods for the home in a small shop. The shop they work in is called a grocer’s.
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Collins
— A grocer is a shopkeeper who sells foods such as flour, sugar, and tinned foods.
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1 use of ‘grocer’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster