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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According to the logline, the fifth season will pick up two years later with Francesca deciding to reenter the marriage mart “for practical reasons.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Since becoming an agriculture student Emily Mulligan has secured part-time work at the local auction mart.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2023
People may say they would be satisfied with winning a smaller sum, but it’s the giant jackpots that prompt people to drop a few dollars on a Powerball ticket at the mini mart.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023
She shows copies of ship manifests and receipts for sold enslaved people, and ends up at a building constructed as an enslaved person mart in the 1850s.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
We hurried along to the waste mart man’s street.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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