convenience store

English

Etymology

From convenience +‎ store.

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)

  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
• 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: Spätverkauf m, Späti (de) m, Kiosk (de) m, Convenience Shop m, Nachbarschaftsladen m, Spätkauf (de) m, Eckladen (de) 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 دکان (kōnē vālī dukān)
• Vietnamese: tạp hoá (vi)

See also

• milk bar