grocery vs market

grocery

noun
  • A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store. 

  • retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. 

verb
  • To go grocery shopping. 

  • To furnish with groceries. 

market

noun
  • A grocery store 

  • A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic. 

  • A group of potential customers for one's product. 

  • A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects. 

  • City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. 

  • A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists. 

  • The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities. 

verb
  • To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. 

  • To sell. 

  • To shop in a market; to attend a market. 

  • To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. 

How often have the words grocery and market occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )