Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

market day

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.20 in modern English

Syllables: mar-ket -day
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see market, day.

noun

The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location.

Example Sentences

"Part of this section runs beneath the Glasgow Cattle Market, and lairage for livestock traffic is provided beside Bellgrove Station; trains are received from all over Scotland on market days."
"On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale."

Inflected Forms

market days (plural)

Questions

What does market day mean?: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see market, day.

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