supermarket

noun

su·​per·​mar·​ket ˈsü-pər-ˌmär-kət 

often attributive

1

: a self-service retail market selling especially foods and household merchandise

2

: something resembling a supermarket especially in the variety or volume of its goods or services

Examples of supermarket in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The design plan shows spaces including supermarket, princess, cake shop and kitchen playsets for imaginative play next to a toddler area and a sandbox on one side of the space, with ball blaster, tube slides and trampoline on the other. —Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2025

On the same day, police said a security guard was killed at a supermarket in the Blue Hills area of the Turks and Caicos Islands, roughly 9 miles from where Tarrence went missing. —Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025

Customers shop at a supermarket in Qingzhou City, East China’s Shandong Province, Aug 9, 2023. —Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 July 2025

Several businesses including supermarkets and electronics stores have also been targets of looting since last week. —semafor.com, 9 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1931, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for supermarket

• aftermarket
• patriarchate
• market
• nonmarket
• premarket
• upmarket

Kids Definition

supermarket

noun

su·​per·​mar·​ket ˈsü-pər-ˌmär-kət 

: a self-service market selling foods and household merchandise