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mart

/mɑɹt/ noun

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Latin root: marcātus Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about mart at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A shop, a store, a market.
    FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart
  2. A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
    In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
  3. A bargain.

verb

  1. To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  2. To traffic.

noun

  1. A battle; a contest.

noun

  1. A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

Origin

From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.

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