百货店 (bǎi huò diàn) — department store; general store

Definition

Literally 'hundred-goods store': a large store selling many kinds of everyday goods, equivalent to a department store. No listed near-synonym to contrast with — just a straightforward retail term.

noun
department storegeneral store
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Examples

  • 百货店
    Zhè jiā bǎi huò diàn de yī fu zhǒng lèi hěn duō.
    This department store has a wide variety of clothes.
  • 百货店
    Wǒ jīng cháng qù nà jiā bǎi huò diàn mǎi rì yòng pǐn.
    I often go to that general store to buy daily necessities.
  • Bǎi huò diàn lǐ shén me dōng xī dōu mài.
    The department store sells everything.

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