Meaning & use
megastores
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“megastores” is a form of “megastore”.
Meaning
nouncountable
Very large shops, usually selling one broad type of product, often outside city centers.
Grammar: Countable noun; use 'a megastore' for one and 'megastores' for two or more.
Patterns
- a chain of megastores
- open a megastore
- shop at a megastore
The company plans to open three new megastores next year.
Out-of-town megastores have taken customers away from small shops.
We spent the whole afternoon in one of those huge electronics megastores.
Word forms
| singular | megastore |
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Common combinations
- an electronics megastore
- He bought the laptop at an electronics megastore.
- a chain of megastores
- The chain of megastores has branches in ten countries.
- open a megastore
- They want to open a megastore near the highway.
- out-of-town megastores
- Out-of-town megastores are cheaper to build than city stores.
Synonyms and how they differ
- superstore
- Very close in meaning, but 'superstore' is the more common British word for a large shop of this kind.
- hypermarket
- A huge store that sells food and household goods together; a megastore usually focuses on one product area.
- warehouse store
- Emphasizes the plain, warehouse-like building and low prices rather than just the size.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: megastores or malls?
megastores vs malls
A mall is a building with many separate shops inside; a megastore is one single, very large shop.
Practice
Choose the sentence that uses 'megastores' correctly.
Choose one answer.
'Several megastores' correctly uses the plural after a plural quantity. 'A megastores' mixes a singular article with a plural noun, 'this megastores' does the same with a singular determiner, and the last option wrongly calls them small.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “megastores”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.