ten-cent store

American  

[ten-sent, -sent] / ˈtɛnˌsɛnt, -ˈsɛnt /

noun

1. five-and-ten.

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Etymology

Origin of ten-cent store

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Example Sentences

Lee Avenue cut right between them, and if you walked out of Camillo Junior High and followed Lee Avenue across Main Street, past MacClean’s Drug Store, Goldman’s Best Bakery, and the Five & Ten-Cent Store, through another block and past the Free Public Library, and down one more block, you’d come to my house—which my father had figured out was right smack in the middle of town.

From Literature

“Kings and queens, liars and lovers” — his voice rises to a crescendo now — “all kinds of real human beings” — here it breaks — “feeling all the real human emotions. Yesterday I sold this land. And now they’re gonna build a five- and ten-cent store . . . on this, my lost kingdom!”

From New York Times

He was making rich cocoa to be eaten with whipped cream that Elizabeth was pouring into a glass pitcher; the pitcher came from the ten-cent store if she had only known it.

From Project Gutenberg

Shirley brought home some packages of seeds she got at the ten-cent store, and there was great excitement planting them.

From Project Gutenberg

They wound the goldy-brown mass up on the very top, and completed the effect by hunting out a pair of plain glass eye-glasses, which Tom had brought from the ten-cent store once long ago.

From Project Gutenberg