corner store

[kawr-ner stawr]

noun

1. a small grocery or convenience store that stocks snacks, food staples, household and sanitary items, tobacco products, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, and sometimes deli items, prepared foods, or a limited selection of fresh produce.

Word History and Origins

Origin of corner store¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

A first-generation daughter of immigrant parents from El Salvador, neighbours recognised her as a girl who would visit the corner store almost daily to buy candy and soda, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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She credits what her father jokes is “an overactive sense of justice” to her grandparents, who ran a corner store in Santa Ana in the 1940s.

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“Everybody in the community is sad, not just the children,” said Elie Naddaf, owner of a corner store in Celeste’s neighborhood.

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She visited the corner store almost every day with her friends, wearing a backpack and her usual long, curly black hair.

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The teen regularly stopped by the corner store on her way to a nearby bus stop.

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Related Words

• convenience store 
• supermarket