mart
/mɑɹt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
Example Sentences
- "FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart"
- "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."
- "Come out of it my Soul, thou art not fit For this vile traffic-house, where day by day Wisdom and reverence are sold at mart, And the rude people rage with ignorant cries Against an heritage of centuries. It mars my calm: wherefore in dreams of Art And loftiest culture I would stand apart, Neither for God, nor for his enemies."
- "Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him, And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner: Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret; A man is Maſter of his libertie:"
- "And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations."
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.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mart, *markat, marcātus, mercātus, Mārs, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɑɹt/
- British English: /mɑːt/
Usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Obsolete
- Transitive verb
- Uncountable