convenience store

English

Etymology

From convenience +‎ store.

Pronunciation

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Noun

convenience store (plural convenience stores)

1. A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.

   Synonyms: (New York City) bodega, (UK) corner shop, (Canada) corner store, (Canada) dépanneur, (Japan) konbini, minimarket, (Cincinnati) pony keg, (Philippines) sari-sari store, (New Zealand, South Africa) superette

   Hyponyms: 7-Eleven, Paki shop

   • 1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Nazeer Choudhury (Ajay Naidu):

     Ah, that's nice. They have many convenience stores there for you to stand in front of.

Related terms

• convenience food

Descendants

• → Japanese: コンビニエンスストア (konbiniensu sutoa)

Translations

a small retail store

• Arabic: بِقَالَة f (biqāla)

  Gulf Arabic: بقالة (baqqāla)

  Hijazi Arabic: بِقَالَة f (bigāla)

• Catalan: botigua de conveniència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便利店 (zh) (biànlìdiàn), 便利商店 (zh) (biànlì shāngdiàn)

• Czech: večerka (cs) f
• Danish: kiosk (da) c
• Dutch: gemakswinkel m, buurtwinkel (nl) m, superette (nl) f, kruidenier (nl) m, kruidenierszaak (nl) f, avondwinkel (nl), nachtwinkel (nl) m
• Esperanto: vendejeto, bazaro
• Estonian: lähikauplus
• Finnish: kulmakauppa, lähikauppa (fi), (really small) kioski (fi)
• French: supérette (fr) m, épicerie (fr) f, (Canada, Missouri, New England, Louisiana) dépanneur (fr) m, épicerie de quartier f, (Belgium) (informal) night shop (fr) m
• German: (selling mainly sweets, drinks, cigarettes) Kiosk m, (western Germany also) Büdchen n, Trinkhalle f, (eastern Germany also) Spätkauf m, Späti m, (selling mainly proper food and household goods) Eckladen m, Nachbarschaftsladen m, Tante-Emma-Laden m
• Greek: ψιλικατζίδικο (el) n (psilikatzídiko), μίνι μάρκετ n (míni márket)
• Hungarian: ABC-áruház, kisbolt, minidiszkont, mini-ABC, éjjel-nappali (hu)
• Indonesian: toko kelontong, toko swalayan (id), minimarket (id)
• Italian: minimarket (it) m, minimercato (it) m, superette f, superetta f
• Japanese: コンビニ (ja) (konbini), コンビニエンスストア (ja) (konbiniensusutoa), CVS (ja) (shī-bui-esu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 편의점(便宜店) (ko) (pyeonuijeom)
• Lao: ມິນິມາກ (mi ni māk)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: kedai serbaneka (ms)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: sklep ogólnospożywczy m
• Portuguese: loja de conveniência f
• Russian: вече́рний магази́н m (večérnij magazín) (evening shop), ночно́й магази́н m (nočnój magazín) (night shop), (day and night shop) круглосу́точный магази́н m (kruglosútočnyj magazín), дежу́рный магази́н m (dežúrnyj magazín), мини-суперма́ркет m (mini-supermárket), минима́ркет m (minimárket)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: mali dućan m

• Spanish: pulpería (es) f (Central America), chino (es) m (Spain, colloquial), bodega (es) f (Latin America)
• Sranan Tongo: omu (colloquial)
• Swedish: minilivs n, närbutik (sv) c
• Thai: มินิมาร์ท (mí-ní-màat)
• Turkish: bakkal (tr), Elverişlilik mağazası, mahalle bakkalı
• Urdu: کونے والی دُکان f (kone vālī dukān)
• Vietnamese: tạp hoá (vi)

See also

• milk bar