Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) a physical market place, usually a public square
  2. (absolute, feminine) The whole of trade, commercial activity
  3. (feminine) any specific economic sector where competitive trade occurs in goods or services
  4. (feminine) a single, regular trade event in one (or more coordinated) places, usually in one town; general or sector-specific
  5. (Suriname, feminine, idiomatic, metonymically) the canopy which covers a food market; the roof structure of a market hall

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɑrkt/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch market, marct, from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus.

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