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mart.

A shop, a store, a market.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/mɑɹt/General-American/mɑːt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A shop, a store, a market.

    Canada · Philippines · US · in-compounds · usually
    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.
    Their facility is one of the largest livestock auction marts in the Scottish Highlands.
  3. A bargain.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/mɑɹt/General-American/mɑːt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.

    obsolete · transitive
  2. To traffic.

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/mɑɹt/General-American/mɑːt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A battle; a contest.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Latin Mārs. See Mart.

noun/mɑɹt/General-American/mɑːt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

    historical · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.

noun/mɑɹt/General-American/mɑːt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).

  2. Salt beef.

    broadly
Where this word comes from

Scottish English, from Middle English, from a Scottish Gaelic root, see mart (“cow prepared for killing”).

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