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greengrocer

UK /ˈɡɹinˌɡɹəʊs.ə(ɹ)/noun

greengrocer is a noun meaning “A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-E-E-N-G-R-O-C-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of greengrocer is greengrocers.

What does greengrocer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    CommonwealthIrelandUKA person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthIrelandUKA relatively small shop selling fresh vegetables and fruit.

  3. 3

    A common green cicada, Cyclochila australasiae, of eastern Australia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce greengrocer?

  • UK /ˈɡɹinˌɡɹəʊs.ə(ɹ)/

Greengrocer has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-greengrocer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of greengrocer

  • greengrocers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is greengrocer?

Greengrocer appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Greengrocer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit:

LanguageWords
Frenchmarchand de fruits et légumes, primeur
GermanGemüsehändler, Gemüsehändlerin, Obst- und Gemüsehändler, Obst- und Gemüsehändlerin, Gemüsemann, Gemüsefrau
Portugueseverdureiro, hortaliceiro, quitandeiro, verduleiro
Spanishverdulero

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does greengrocer come from?

From green + grocer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).