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

The voice of Eric Garner, outside his corner store, not theirs.

From The Daily Beast

At the corner store or in the medicine cabinet or next to the bread in the pantry—all seem closer at hand than black market pot.

From The Daily Beast

One child was asked ‘Where does your mother buy bread’, and they replied in the corner store.

From The Daily Beast

“Bare feet and firecrackers and cousins and walking down dirt roads to a corner store to get a Coke or Pepsi,” she rhapsodizes.

From The Daily Beast

None of them had a cellphone, so they ended up at a corner store to get directions.

From The Daily Beast

Now, the mother of three children, nothing could persuade her to go on the streets alone beyond the corner store.

From Project Gutenberg

At the corner store Ted found his 50 two friends; the automobile had long since left.

From Project Gutenberg

I wrote the man at the Corner Store to hold them until we called there for them.

From Project Gutenberg

The men around the corner store at home were forever telling stories about the big yarns that Were told in the West.

From Project Gutenberg

A druggist was obliged to move from his corner store four doors east on a side street.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• convenience store
• supermarket