liquor store

English

Noun

liquor store (plural liquor stores)

1. (US, Canada) A shop that sells alcoholic beverages to be consumed off the premises.
2. (California) A convenience store.

Synonyms

• off-licence (Ireland, Britain), package store, packie (US), bottle shop, bottle-o (Australia, New Zealand), bottle store (South Africa), pony keg (Cincinnati), state store (Pennsylvania), party store (Michigan), ABC (Virginia), state liquor agency (Ohio, with respect to distilled spirits, where other liquor stores that are not state liquor agencies may sell wine and beer only), LCBO (Ontario)

Translations

shop that sells alcoholic beverages to be drunk off the premises

• Arabic: مُتَّجِر كُحُول m (muttajir kuḥūl)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 酒鋪／酒铺 (zau² pou^3-2), 酒行 (zau² hong^4-2)

  Mandarin: 酒類專賣店／酒类专卖店 (jiǔlèi zhuānmàidiàn), (dated) 酒鋪／酒铺 (zh) (jiǔpù), (formal, large store) 酒行 (jiǔháng)

• Dutch: slijterij (nl) f
• Estonian: alkoholikauplus
• Finnish: alkoholimyymälä (fi); viinakauppa (fi) (informal)
• French: magasin de vins et spiritueux m, débit de boissons (fr) m
• German: Spirituosengeschäft n, Schnapsladen m (colloquial)
• Greek: κάβα (el) f (káva)
• Hungarian: italbolt (hu)
• Japanese: 酒店 (ja) (さかみせ, sakamise, さかだな, sakadana, しゅてん, shuten), 酒屋 (ja) (さかや, sakaya), 酒房 (ja) (しゅぼう, shubō)
• Korean: 주류 판매점 (juryu panmaejeom)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: vinmonopol n, (slang) pol
• Polish: sklep monopolowy (pl) m, monopolowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: loja de bebidas f
• Russian: ви́нный магази́н m (vínnyj magazín), (full name) магази́н ви́нной и ликёро-во́дочной проду́кции (magazín vínnoj i likjóro-vódočnoj prodúkcii)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трговина алкохолним пићима f

  Roman: trgovina alkoholnim pićima f

• Spanish: vinatería f (wine shop), tienda de alcohol f, botillería f, licorería f
• Swahili: duka la pombe
• Swedish: spritbutik c, spritaffär c
• Thai: ร้านขายเหล้า (ráan kǎai hěe láa)
• Turkish: tekel bayii (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can