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: minimarket, minimart; bodega (US, regional), corner shop (UK), corner store (Canada, US), dépanneur (Canada), konbini (Japan), pony keg (Cincinnati), sari-sari store (Philippines), superette (New Zealand, South Africa), c-store

   Hypernyms: store < establishment

   Hyponyms: 7-Eleven, Paki shop

   Coordinate terms: supermarket, grocery store, drug store, pharmacy, package store, liquor store

   • 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), コンビニ (konbini)
• English: konbini

Translations

a small retail store

• Arabic: بِقَالَة f (biqāla), مَتْجَر صَغِير m (matjar ṣaḡīr) (small shop)

  Gulf Arabic: بقالة (baqqāla)

  Hijazi Arabic: بِقَالَة f (bigāla)

• Catalan: botiga de conveniència f
• Cebuano: sari-sari store
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 便利店 (bin⁶ lei⁶ dim³), 便利商店 (bin⁶ lei⁶ soeng¹ dim³), 小賣店 / 小卖店 (siu² maai⁶ dim³)

  Mandarin: 便利店 (zh) (biànlìdiàn), 便利商店 (zh) (biànlì shāngdiàn), 小賣店 / 小卖店 (zh) (xiǎomàidiàn)

• Czech: večerka (cs) f
• Danish: kiosk (da) c, nærbutik 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
• Georgian: მარკეტი (marḳeṭi), მინიმარკეტი (minimarḳeṭi), სასურსათო მაღაზია (sasursato maɣazia), მაღაზია (maɣazia)
• German: (selling mainly sweets, drinks, cigarettes) Kiosk (de) m, (western Germany also) Büdchen (de) n, Trinkhalle f, (eastern Germany also) Spätkauf (de) m, Späti (de) m, (selling mainly proper food and household goods) Eckladen (de) m, Nachbarschaftsladen m, Tante-Emma-Laden (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 (it) f, superetta (it) f, convenience store m (anglicism)
• Japanese: コンビニ (ja) (konbini), コンビニエンスストア (ja) (konbiniensu sutoa), CVS (ja) (shī-bui-esu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 편의점(便宜店) (ko) (pyeonuijeom), 소매점(小賣店) (ko) (somaejeom)
• Lao: ມິນິມາກ (mi ni māk), ຮ້ານສະດວກຊື້ (hān sa dūak sư̄)
• 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
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nærbutikk m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: خوارْبارْفُروشی (xârbârforuši)

• 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 (ru) m (minimárket)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: mali dućan m

• Spanish: pulpería (es) f (Central America), chino (es) m (Spain, colloquial), bodega (es) f (Latin America), abacería (es) f, encomendería f
• Sranan Tongo: omu (colloquial)
• Swedish: minilivs n, närbutik (sv) c
• Tagalog: sari-sari store
• Thai: มินิมาร์ท (mí-ní-màat), ร้านสะดวกซื้อ (ráan-sà-dùuak-sʉ́ʉ)
• Turkish: bakkal (tr), Elverişlilik mağazası, mahalle bakkalı
• Urdu: کونے والی دُکان f (kone vālī dukān)
• Vietnamese: tạp hoá (vi), cửa hàng tiện lợi

See also

• gas station (often contains a convenience store)
• milk bar