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supermarket

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsuːpəˈmɑːkɪt/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: S UW1 P ER0 M AA2 R K IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • I went to the supermarket to buy some food.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A chain of such stores.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A one-stop shop; a place offering a range of products or services.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grocery store, grocery, food market, market

Narrower terms: hypermarket

History

Etymology

American English, super- + market, 1933.

Across languages

Translations

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: supermark — store
  • Albanian: supermarket — store
  • Arabic: سُوبَرْمَارْكِت (subarmārkit) — store
  • Arabic: سُوبَر مَارْكِت (subar mārkit) — store
  • Armenian: սուպերմարկետ (supermarket) — store
  • Asturian: supermercáu — store
  • Azerbaijani: supermarket — store
  • Basque: supermerkatu — store
  • Belarusian: суперма́ркет (supjermárkjet) — store
  • Bengali: সুপারমার্কেট (suparmarkeṭ) — store
  • Bulgarian: суперма́ркет (supermárket) — store
  • Burmese: စူပါမားကတ် (cupama:kat) — store
  • Burmese: ကုန်စုံဆိုင်ကြီး (kuncumhcuingkri:) — store
  • Catalan: supermercat — store
  • Chinese Cantonese: 超級市場 /超级市场 (ciu1 kap1 si5 coeng4) — store
  • Chinese Cantonese: 超市 (ciu1 si5) — store
  • Chinese: 超級市場 /超级市场 (chhiau-ki̍p-chhī-tiûn / chhiau-kip-chhī-tiûn) — store
  • Chinese: 超市 (chhiau-chhī) — store
  • Chinese Mandarin: 超級市場 /超级市场 (chāojí shìchǎng) — store
  • Chinese Mandarin: 超市 (chāoshì) — store
  • Cornish: gorvarhas — store
  • Czech: supermarket — store
  • Danish: supermarked — store
  • Dutch: supermarkt — store
  • Esperanto: superbazaro — store
  • Esperanto: magazeno — store
  • Estonian: supermarket — store
  • Finnish: supermarketti — store
  • French: supermarché — store
  • West-Frisian: supermerk — store
  • Fula: 𞤣𞤵𞤺𞥆𞤫𞤪𞤫 — store
  • Fula: duggere — store
  • Galician: supermercado — store
  • Georgian: სუპერმარკეტი (suṗermarḳeṭi) — store
  • German: Supermarkt — store
  • Greek: σουπερμάρκετ (soupermárket) — store
  • Hebrew: סוּפֶּרמַרקֶט (supermárket) — store
  • Hebrew: מַרכּוֹל (markól) — store
  • Hindi: सुपरमार्केट (suparmārkeṭ) — store
  • Hungarian: szupermarket — store
  • Hungarian: áruház — store
  • Hungarian: élelmiszer-áruház — store
  • Hungarian: élelmiszerbolt — store
  • Hungarian: közért — store
  • Hungarian: ABC — store
  • Icelandic: kjörbúð — store
  • Icelandic: stórmarkaður — store
  • Ido: supermerkato — store
  • Indonesian: supermarket — store
  • Indonesian: pasaraya — store
  • Indonesian: pasar swalayan — store
  • Irish: ollmhargadh — store
  • Italian: supermercato — store
  • Japanese: スーパーマーケット (sūpāmāketto) — store
  • Japanese: スーパー (sūpā) — store
  • Kazakh: супермаркет (supermarket) — store
  • Khmer: ផ្សារទំនើប (phsaa tumnəəp) — store
  • Korean: 슈퍼마켓 (syupeomaket) — store
  • Korean: 슈퍼 (syupeo) — store
  • Kyrgyz: супермаркет (supermarket) — store
  • Lao: ຊຸບເປີມາເກັດ (sup pœ̄ mā ket) — store
  • Lao: ສັບພະສິນຄ້າ (sap pha sin khā) — store
  • Latin: praegrande emporium — store
  • Latvian: lielveikals — store
  • Latvian: supermārkets — store
  • Lithuanian: prekybos centras — store
  • Lithuanian: supermarketas — store
  • Macedonian: суперма́ркет (supermárket) — store
  • Malay: pasar raya — store
  • Manx: ard-vargey — store
  • Māori: toa hokomaha — store
  • Māori: whare hokomaha — store
  • Marathi: सुपरमार्केट (suparmārkeṭ) — store
  • Mongolian: хүнсний дэлгүүр (xünsnii delgüür) — store
  • Mongolian: супермаркет (supermarket) — store
  • Mongolian: их дэлгүүр (ix delgüür) — store
  • Norman: supèrmarchi — store
  • Norwegian Bokmål: supermarked — store
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: supermarknad — store
  • Occitan: supermercat — store
  • Pannonian Rusyn: супермаркет (supermarket) — store
  • Iranian Persian: سوپِرْمارْکِت (supermârket) — store
  • Polish: supermarket — store
  • Portuguese: supermercado — store
  • Romanian: supermagazin — store
  • Romanian: magazin universal — store
  • Romansh: supermartgà — store
  • Russian: суперма́ркет (supermárket) — store
  • Russian: универса́м (universám) — store
  • Russian: универма́г (univermág) — store
  • Russian: магази́н (magazín) — store
  • Serbo-Croatian: самопо̀слуга — store
  • Serbo-Croatian: samopòsluga — store
  • Sicilian: supirmircatu — store
  • Slovak: supermarket — store
  • Slovene: supermarket — store
  • Spanish: supermercado — store
  • Swahili: supamaketi — store
  • Swedish: stormarknad — store
  • Tajik: супермаркет (supermarket) — store
  • Thai: ซูเปอร์มาร์เก็ต (suu-bpə̂ə-maa-gêt) — store
  • Tok Pisin: supamaket — store
  • Turkish: süpermarket — store
  • Turkmen: supermarket — store
  • Ukrainian: суперма́ркет (supermárket) — store
  • Urdu: سُپَر مارْکیٹ (supar mārkeṭ) — store
  • Uzbek: supermarket — store
  • Uzbek: universam — store
  • Vietnamese: siêu thị — store
  • Volapük: susmaket — store
  • Volapük: lemaket — store
  • Welsh: archfarchnad — store
  • Zhuang: cauhsi — store
  • Chinese Mandarin: 連鎖超市 /连锁超市 (liánsuǒ chāoshì) — chain of stores
  • Czech: obchodní řetězec — chain of stores
  • Danish: supermarkedskæde — chain of stores
  • Dutch: supermarktketen — chain of stores
  • Esperanto: ĉenbutiko — chain of stores
  • Finnish: supermarket-ketju — chain of stores
  • French: supermarché — chain of stores
  • Macedonian: суперма́ркет (supermárket) — chain of stores
  • Norman: supèrmarchi — chain of stores
  • Pannonian Rusyn: супермаркет (supermarket) — chain of stores
  • Polish: supermarket — chain of stores
  • Russian: суперма́ркет (supermárket) — chain of stores
Real reading context

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