Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A trading center; a market.
- n. A place where goods are sold; a store.
- n. Archaic A fair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place of sale or traffic; seat of trade; market.
- n. Trade; traffic; purchase and sale; market.
- To traffic; deal.
- To make market for; trade in; buy and sell; deal in or with.
- n. Same as Mars, 1.
- n. [capitalized] Martinmas.
- n. A cow or ox fattened to be killed (usually about Martinmas) and salted or smoked for winter provision.
- n. Same as marque
- n. The marten.
Wiktionary
- n. A market.
- n. obsolete A bargain.
- v. obsolete To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
- v. obsolete To traffic.
- n. Mart — The god Mars.
- n. obsolete Battle; contest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A market.
- n. obsolete A bargain.
- v. obsolete To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart.
- v. obsolete To traffic.
- n. obsolete The god Mars.
- n. obsolete Battle; contest.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
Etymologies
- Ultimately from Latin mercatus; see market. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, probably from Middle Flemish, from Vulgar Latin *marcātus; see market. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Learn the crafts and the skills and never be at a loss because the thrall mart is out of stock.”
“I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange.”
“They also refuse to allow their employees to unionize, and generally pay low wages, and instead of hiring more people install automated tellers Wal-mart is having a horrible effect on rural communities and the U.S. ecomony.”
“Wal-mart is part of this, and they have to be to exist.”
“I know that Wal-mart is making some impressive strides towards being more sustainable.”
Wal-Mart May Remove 9 Million Plastic Bags from the Waste Stream - Big Whoop
“Link wal-mart has institutionalized hypocrisy. they sell massive amounts of chinese goods while trumpeting their americanism. now, they create a political enviorment that encourages republican repression instead of american freedom. wal-mart is un-american.period. —”
Groups to File Complaint Against Wal-Mart - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“A project for opening the navigation of the Indus and Sutlej has lately been formed and an extensive mart is to be established at Mithenkote.”
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
“Wal-mart is so eager to get people in and spending that they are offering to cash the cheques for free and offer deals. (you pay to cash cheques?)”
“Wal-mart is adding to the pressure by getting rid of DRM in their online music store.”
“I live in Pennsylvania ... and my b/c at wal-mart is $27.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mart’.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
Words from Sir Richard Burton's seventeenth-century masterpiece which I discovered yesterday.
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Dutch Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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