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mart

1

[ mahrt ]

noun

  1. market; trading center; trade center.
  2. a building, center, or exposition for the sale of goods by manufacturers and wholesalers to retail merchants.
  3. Archaic. a fair.
  4. Obsolete. bargain.


mart

2

[ mahrt ]

noun

, Scot. and North England.
  1. a cow or ox fattened for slaughter.

mart

/ mɑːt /

noun

  1. a market or trading centre


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mart1

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle Dutch mar ( c ) t market

Origin of mart2

1300–50; Middle English < Scots Gaelic; compare MIr mart ox or cow slaughtered for meat, carcass, hence a live ox or cow

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mart1

C15: from Middle Dutch mart market

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Example Sentences

In an Ohio Wal-Mart, John Crawford III was strolling around the store and had picked up an air rifle that was for sale there.

Even a frugal firm like Wal-Mart is enlarging its Silicon Valley presence.

If you think of her in retail terms, Hillary is Costco, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot all rolled into one mega-mega-mega-store.

“I do all this stuff in the community and the haji mart over there,” he said, using the slang for Iraqis used by U.S. soldiers.

At the opening-night party, Mart Crowley saw Mae West sitting alone, except for the company of two musclemen bodyguards.

The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.

The city, by the advantages which it affords, daily improves, and is the largest mart in Asia within the Taurus.

Situated as it was in the centre of the county, it was a convenient mart for barley, and great quantities of malt were made.

Never a day dawned but the parson and Emma went to town by an omnibus, looking at things in this mart, buying in that.

When he found out who we were, he stopped swearing and got up out of the bunk to put his hand on Mart Kirgan's shoulder.

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