supermarket

«supermarket» in Mova's school dictionary: a big shop where you can buy food, drinks and many other… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (supermarket, supermarkets)

meaning for a pupil

A supermarket is a big shop where you can buy food, drinks and many other things for the home, taking them from shelves and paying at a checkout. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: the place of buying and selling; prices, items bought, change; comparing prices, special offers («buy 2, get 1 free»), weighing fruit by the kilogram. Everyday: trolley (US: cart), basket, aisle, checkout, self-checkout, shopping list.

examples

• Mom bought 6 eggs at the supermarket. tree →
• The supermarket sells apples for 50 cents each. tree →
• The supermarket has 12 rows of shelves. tree →
• He spent 25 dollars at the supermarket. tree →
• Pass me a trolley, please. tree →
• The milk is in the last aisle of the supermarket. tree →
• Pay at the checkout. tree →
• The supermarket has a special offer: three for two. tree →

note

Countable: a supermarket, supermarkets. A place word; the buying tells the operation: items × price for the cost, money minus cost for change. Trap: «three for two» means you pay for 2 and get 3.

In the corpora

• Supermarkets are designed to make people buy more than they planned, with offers, smells and treats by the tills.
• Vivid example: in Leeds, Charlie points at a film box in the supermarket.
• Supermarket eggs never hatch because the hens live without a cockerel, and a hen lays about one egg a day.
• In Boston people stare at them in the supermarket.
• Corner shops often charge more than big supermarkets because they buy smaller amounts and stay open late near you; you pay for convenience.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «supermarket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.