convenience store

English

Etymology

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

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

Synonyms

• (small retail store): corner shop (UK); corner store, dépanneur (Canadian English); bodega (New York City English); pony keg (Cincinnati)

Descendants

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

Translations

a small retail store

• 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
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kulmakauppa, lähikauppa (fi), (really small) kioski (fi)
• French: supérette (fr) m, épicerie (fr) f, (Canada) dépanneur (fr) m, épicerie de quartier f, (Belgium) (informal) night shop (fr) m, paki (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
• Japanese: コンビニ (ja) (konbini), コンビニエンスストア (ja) (konbiniensusutoa)
• 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
• 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)
• Sranan Tongo: omu (colloquial)
• Swedish: minilivs n, närbutik (sv) c
• Thai: มินิมาร์ท
• Turkish: Elverişlilik mağazası, mahalle bakkalı
• Urdu: کونے والی دکان‎ (kōnē vālī dukān)
• Vietnamese: tạp hoá (vi)

See also

• milk bar