mart
Plural: marts
Noun
- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
- A shop, a store, a market.
- A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
- A bargain.
- Battle; contest.
- Marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
- A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
- Salt beef.
Verb
Verb Forms: marted, marting, marts
- To engage in buying and selling; to market goods.
- To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
- To traffic.
Examples
- FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart
- In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
- The ancient trader would MART his wares, hoping for good prices.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
market, market place, marketplace
Scrabble Score: 6
mart: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmart: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mart: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary