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FOOD MARKET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does food market mean?
• FOOD MARKET (noun)
The noun FOOD MARKET has 1 sense:
1. a marketplace where groceries are sold
Familiarity information: FOOD MARKET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A marketplace where groceries are sold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
food market; grocery; grocery store; market
Context example:
the grocery store included a meat market
Hypernyms ("food market" is a kind of...):
market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)
Meronyms (parts of "food market"):
shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "food market"):
greengrocery (a greengrocer's grocery store)
supermarket (a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods)
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