Mart

Quick meaning: Mart is a noun meaning (Canada, US, Philippines, usually only in combination) A shop, a store, a market.

Meaning

(Canada, US, Philippines, usually only in combination) A shop, a store, a market.

More Meanings

1. A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
2. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
3. (obsolete) A bargain.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To traffic.
6. (obsolete) A battle; a contest.
7. (historical) A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

Example Sentences

FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart

In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.

Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.

And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.

Word Forms

• marts
• marting
• marted

Synonyms for mart

Depending on context, synonyms include marketplace.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include marketplace, emporium, store, greeter, expo, exposition.

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