trading post
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A place where trading of goods takes place.
Example Sentences
- "He runs a small trading post in the vicinity of New Hampshire."
- "Further questions elicited from him that Mr Kurtz was at present in charge of a trading post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at ‘the very bottom of there. Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together. . .’"
- "For two years the Easterner had been searching for his lost brother, at trading posts and Army forts all along the frontier."