mart
1 Americannoun
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market; trading center; trade center.
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a building, center, or exposition for the sale of goods by manufacturers and wholesalers to retail merchants.
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Archaic. a fair.
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Obsolete. bargain.
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Etymology
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
Vocabulary lists containing mart
Example Sentences
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MART, fatted beasts, slaughtered at Martinmas for winter provision.
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir
I had brought it about by the pages in which in my pamphlet, LE ROI EST MART!
From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
MART, MARTE, MAIRT, s. a cow or ox killed for winter's use.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
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