English Online Dictionary. What means market? What does market mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːkɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkət/
- Hyphenation: mar‧ket
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪt, -ɑɹkət
Noun
market (plural markets)
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
- Synonyms: mart, fair
- A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
- Synonyms: marketplace, bazaar, arcade
- Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
- Hyponym: supermarket (large type)
- A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
- A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- Coordinate term: distribution channel (sometimes broadly synonymous)
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
Derived terms
Related terms
- mart
- mercantile
- merchant
Descendants
- → Bengali: মার্কেট (markeṭ)
- → Hindi: मार्केट (mārkeṭ)
- → Japanese: マーケット (māketto)
- → Korean: 마켓 (maket)
- → Odia: ମାର୍କେଟ୍ (mārkeṭ)
- → Persian: (Dari) مارکیت (mârkêt)
- → Turkish: market
- → Urdu: مارکیٹ (markeṭ)
Translations
Verb
market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- (transitive) To sell.
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
Derived terms
- marketeer
Related terms
- marketer
- marketing campaign
Translations
References
- “market”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- market in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “market”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑrket/, [ˈmɑ̝rk̟e̞t̪]
- Rhymes: -ɑrket
- Hyphenation(key): mar‧ket
Noun
market
- Alternative form of marketti
Declension
Further reading
- “market”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
- kermat
Middle English
Alternative forms
- marcat, markat, marked, marketh
- markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)
Etymology
From late Old English market (“market”), from Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Vulgar Latin marcātus, from classical Latin mercātus (“trade, market”).
Variants ending /t/ are from either Old Saxon or Old Picard, while those ending in /θ/ are from other varieties of Old Northern French (e.g. Walloon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /marˈkeːt/, /ˈmarkat/, /ˈmarkɛt/
- (ending in /θ/) IPA(key): /marˈkɛːθ/, /ˈmarkɛθ/
Noun
market (plural marketes, dative markete)
- A market; (periodic public assembly for buying or selling).
- A marketplace; a square for holding markets.
- (rare) A market town; a town where markets are held.
- (rare) Trade, interchange, interaction.
Descendants
- English: market (see there for further descendants)
- Middle Scots: market, mercat
- Scots: market
- Yola: maarkeet, markeat
References
Old English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mercātus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑr.ket/, [ˈmɑrˠ.ket]
Noun
market m
- market
Descendants
- Middle English: market, marcat, markat, marked, marketh, markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)
- English: market (see there for further descendants)
- Middle Scots: market, mercat
- Scots: market
- Yola: maarkeet, markeat
Old French
Alternative forms
- markiet
Etymology
See marchié.
Noun
market oblique singular, m (oblique plural markés, nominative singular markés, nominative plural market)
- (Old Northern French) market; venue where goods are bought and sold
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English market, from Middle English market, from late Old English market and Anglo-Norman markiet, from Latin mercātus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmar.kɛt/
- Rhymes: -arkɛt
- Syllabification: mar‧ket
Noun
market m inan
- market (grocery store)
Declension
Further reading
- market in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- market in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from English market.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑɾ.cet/
Noun
market (definite accusative marketi, plural marketler)
- market