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mart

noun
/mɑɹt/US/mɑːt/UK

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.

  1. derived from mercātus
  2. derived from marcātus
  3. derived from *markat✻
  4. derived from mart

Definitions

  1. A shop, a store, a market.

    • FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart

  2. A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.

    • In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
    • 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.

  3. A bargain.

    • Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.

      • To sell and mart your officer for gold To undeservers.

    2. To traffic.

    3. A battle

      A battle; a contest.

    4. A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

    5. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).

    6. Salt beef.

    7. A diminutive of the male given name Martin.

      • He looked at me when introduced and said “Mart's boy!” 'I was in fact Martin's grandson, but didn't bother splitting hairs — […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA