Bodega
noun
A small grocery store, especially in a Spanish-speaking area.
I stopped by the bodega on my way home to buy some eggs.
Often appears as...
- corner bodega
- local bodega
noun
In Spanish-speaking countries, a winery or wine cellar.
We visited a beautiful old bodega in Spain with rows of aged casks of sherry.
Often appears as...
- visit a bodega
- wine bodega
noun
In Catalan culture, a large ceramic jug for holding wine.
The restaurant owner served us local wine from a traditional Catalan bodega.
Often appears as...
- catalan bodega
- traditional bodega
Usage tips
Cultural
noun
A small grocery store, especially in a Spanish-speaking area.
I stopped by the bodega on my way home to buy some eggs.
Often appears as...
- corner bodega
- local bodega
noun
In Spanish-speaking countries, a winery or wine cellar.
We visited a beautiful old bodega in Spain with rows of aged casks of sherry.
Often appears as...
- visit a bodega
- wine bodega
noun
In Catalan culture, a large ceramic jug for holding wine.
The restaurant owner served us local wine from a traditional Catalan bodega.
Often appears as...
- catalan bodega
- traditional bodega
Usage tips
Cultural
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Hub
A bodega often serves as a neighborhood hub where locals and visitors interact.
The bodega on our block is where everyone catches up on community news.
Pro Tip 2/3Convenience
Bodegas are known for being convenient and opened longer hours than a regular grocery store.
It's already 11 PM, but the corner bodega should still be open!
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Supermarket
Bodegas are smaller and have a more limited selection than supermarkets.
You might not find exotic ingredients at a bodega, but they have all the basics.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Hub
A bodega often serves as a neighborhood hub where locals and visitors interact.
The bodega on our block is where everyone catches up on community news.
Pro Tip 2/3Convenience
Bodegas are known for being convenient and opened longer hours than a regular grocery store.
It's already 11 PM, but the corner bodega should still be open!
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Supermarket
Bodegas are smaller and have a more limited selection than supermarkets.
You might not find exotic ingredients at a bodega, but they have all the basics.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Hub
A bodega often serves as a neighborhood hub where locals and visitors interact.
The bodega on our block is where everyone catches up on community news.
Pro Tip 2/3Convenience
Bodegas are known for being convenient and opened longer hours than a regular grocery store.
It's already 11 PM, but the corner bodega should still be open!
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Supermarket
Bodegas are smaller and have a more limited selection than supermarkets.
You might not find exotic ingredients at a bodega, but they have all the basics.
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Video examples
Theaster Gates: How to...
a local school, a small bodega, and is there some kind of synergy between those things? Can you get those folk talking? I've found that in cases where neighborhoods have failed, they still often have a pulse. How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate people,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 170 PIPE...
white from bodega that just crossed the road there's lots of deck around and probably spot him in a second not with the lights of course if he stops we are going to go into infrared please Louise
Video examples
Theaster Gates: How to...
a local school, a small bodega, and is there some kind of synergy between those things? Can you get those folk talking? I've found that in cases where neighborhoods have failed, they still often have a pulse. How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate people,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 170 PIPE...
white from bodega that just crossed the road there's lots of deck around and probably spot him in a second not with the lights of course if he stops we are going to go into infrared please Louise
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Quote examples
Jay-Z
American Musician
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
Quote examples
Samira Wiley
American Actress
You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
Quote examples
Cory Booker
American Politician
I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No.
Quote examples
Daymond John
American Businessman
Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.
Quote examples
Marlon Wayans
American Actor
I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.
Quote examples
Colson Whitehead
American Novelist
For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.
Quote examples
Aquaria
American
When I go down to the bodega and grab a BLT, I throw on my sweatpants and sweatshirt.
Quote examples
Jay-Z
American Musician
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
Quote examples
Samira Wiley
American Actress
You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
Quote examples
Cory Booker
American Politician
I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No.
Quote examples
Daymond John
American Businessman
Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.
Quote examples
Marlon Wayans
American Actor
I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.
Quote examples
Colson Whitehead
American Novelist
For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.
Quote examples
Aquaria
American
When I go down to the bodega and grab a BLT, I throw on my sweatpants and sweatshirt.
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