market

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
2. (transitive) To sell.
3. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
4. (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.

Synonyms

marketplace

bazaar

fair

store

sell

shop

mart

market place

sales activity

outlet

commerce

place

bazar

vend

site

exchange

merchandise

commercialize

trade

field

open space

market-place

commercialise

festival

animal market

ditribute

put on sale

securities industry

peomote

grocery

souk

stock exchange

emporium

show

merchandize

buy

🛍️

actualize

mall

realize

grocery store

purchase

🛍️

shopping center

sale

food market

furnish

free trade area

forum

commercial

bought

flog

Translations

marché

Markt

mercato

mercado

markt

mercado

αγορά

mercat

marktplein

çarşı

marktplaats

forum

afzetgebied

pazar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɑːkɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: market

Inherited from Old English: market

Cognate with Western Frisian: merk

Cognate with Dutch: markt

Cognate with Old High German: Markt

In summary

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.

Sentences

Their definition is now maintained by the Market Research Society .

The pavement collapsed earlier this morning , injuring an old lady heading for the market .