Market

Quick meaning: Market is a noun meaning A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.

Meaning

A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.

More Meanings

1. Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
2. A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
3. A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
4. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
5. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
6. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
7. A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.

Example Sentences

Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.

There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.

This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.

The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.

Word Forms

• markets
• marketing
• marketed

Synonyms for market

Depending on context, synonyms include mart, fair, marketplace, bazaar, arcade, grocery.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commercialize, grocery, marketplace, commerce, trade, aftermarket.

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