bazaar
or ba·zar
[buh-zahr]
- a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East.
- a sale of miscellaneous contributed articles to benefit some charity, cause, organization, etc.
- a store in which many kinds of goods are offered for sale; department store.
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Origin of bazaar
1590–1600; earlier bazarro < Italian ≪ Persian bāzār market
Synonyms
See more synonyms for bazaar on Thesaurus.com1. market, mart, exchange.
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Examples from the Web for bazaar
Contemporary Examples
They had to go to the bazaar -- as the mall was then called -- and buy them.
Never mind the word "bazaar," which you pronounce as "bizarre" and Hassan pronounces as "buzzer."
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in IraqNathan Bradley Bethea
August 31, 2014
And Stephanie Seymour poses for 'Harper's Bazaar' with her boys.
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At the same time, your Turkish guide/driver would be talking you up, as if he was trying to sell you like a rug at the bazaar.
The Superflat artist's fantastical creatures pose alongside model Angela Lindvall for Harper's Bazaar's December/January issue.
Historical Examples
The tribesmen poured into the bazaar and attacked the serai on all sides.
The Story of the Malakand Field ForceSir Winston S. Churchill
He goes everywhere alone, to fetch water and to buy bread at the bazaar.
A Hero of Our TimeM. Y. Lermontov
The State is not one but many, like a bazaar at which you can buy anything.
The RepublicPlato
Why, Baker's Bazaar don't pay the man on their team but ten a week.
Mary-'GustaJoseph C. Lincoln
Then in a dog-cart and three gharries to the bazaar; very quaint and picturesque.
The Last VoyageLady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
bazaar
bazar
- (esp in the Orient) a market area, esp a street of small stalls
- a sale in aid of charity, esp of miscellaneous secondhand or handmade articles
- a shop where a large variety of goods is sold
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Word Origin
C16: from Persian bāzār, from Old Persian abēcharish
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Word Origin and History for bazaar
n.
1580s, from Italian bazarra, ultimately from Persian bazar (Pahlavi vacar) "a market."
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