hypermarket
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈhaɪpərˌmɑrkɪt/
:
hipermercado
- I'm just 34, but back in my day, bread was bought fresh in a bakery, not from a 24/7 hypermarket, precut, loaded with additives, and wrapped in a branded plastic bag.
- hypermarket chain
- a large hypermarket
Examples
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On weekends, the hypermarket gets crowded with families buying their weekly supplies.
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The media are the hypermarket outlet for the consumption of memory.
Academic text (2001) -
My own survey concerning the largest multinational hypermarket in Indonesia, Carrefour, provides evidence to support that claim.
Academic text (2008) -
In Germany, the retail hypermarket chain REAL, part of Metro Group, has launched a new electronic coupon system throughout its 320 stores nationwide.
Blog text (21) -
In the UK and all over Europe, we have supermarkets and hypermarkets crushing small businesses, and big corporations turning the main streets into clones.
Blog text (34) -
Across Portugal, supermarkets and hypermarkets, with their inexpensive packaged goods and bulk items, continued to gain ground.
Blog text (21) -
Giyt stared after them, trying to identify the other man—was it one of the people from the hypermarket?
Fiction book (1997) -
The new hypermarket near my house has everything from groceries to electronics.
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She prefers shopping at the hypermarket because it offers a wide variety of products at lower prices.
Synonyms
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1.0
A shop where people buy goods like food or clothes
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1.0
A large store where you buy food and household items
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1.0
A shop that sells goods in small amounts directly to people
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6.0
A large shop that sells many different things in separate sections
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2.3
A very large shop that sells food, clothes, and things for the home
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3.4
A very large store that sells food and many other things under one roof
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Etymology
The word hypermarket has the prefix hyper- meaning 'over' or 'very', the same hyper- in hyperactive, and the common word market meaning a place to buy things. So a hypermarket is like a 'very big market' that sells many kinds of goods in one large store, often outside a town.