mart
A shop, a store, a marketA shop, a store, a market.
» All humans buy food at the mart.
Meaning
7 senses(Canada, Philippines, US, in compounds, usually)A shop, a store, a market.
FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart
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.
(historical, uncountable)A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
(broadly)Salt beef.
(obsolete)A bargain.
(obsolete)A battle; a contest.
- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
Examples
3 sentencesAll humans buy food at the mart.
I know Omega Mart's exceptional customers song.
The main streets of many small towns have been all but abandoned thanks, in large part, to behemoths like Wal-Mart.
ruГлавные улицы множества маленьких городов были заброшены, в первую очередь, из-за бегемотов вроде Вал-Марта. — Vokabre
Origin
From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, froFrom 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.
From Latin Mārs. See Mart.
Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.
Scottish English, from Middle English, from a Scottish Gaelic root, see mart (“cow prepared for killing”).
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Forms
plural: martsSynonyms
3 synonyms- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up:marketplacemarket placemarket