🇬🇧 Hypermarket meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A hypermarket is a very big shop, usually built outside the centre of a town, where you can buy lots of different things all in one place. It often has food like a supermarket, plus clothes, toys, books, furniture, electronics, and more. People go to a hypermarket when they want to do almost all their shopping in one big trip instead of visiting many small shops.

Dad said we’d have a quick trip to the hypermarket; three hours later I was old enough to drive the cart myself.

Some hypermarkets are so large they can be bigger than several football fields put together—which explains why I need half-time snacks just to reach the cereal.

Our teacher said a hypermarket sells almost everything, so I asked if they also sell finished homework—sadly, no.

Our hypermarket is so huge that by the time we reach the checkout, I feel like I’ve walked to another country.

In the hypermarket, my dad said, “We stick to the list,” and then he betrayed the list for a giant bucket of ice cream on sale.

Tom drove to the hypermarket for a single loaf, then froze at the entrance of the hypermarket: endless aisles of food, tools, toys, and lamps. He pushed a cart through the hypermarket like a child in a hypermarket, filling it with picnic blankets and candles. At checkout his tired smile said it all—the hypermarket had saved the family weekend.

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