MART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mart mean? 

• MART (noun)
  The noun MART has 1 sense:

1. an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

  Familiarity information: MART used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

market; market place; marketplace; mart

Hypernyms ("mart" is a kind of...):

mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet (a place of business for retailing goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mart"):

agora; public square (a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece)

bazaar; bazar (a street of small shops (especially in Orient))

food market; grocery; grocery store; market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

market square; open-air market; open-air marketplace (a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold)

slave market (a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War))

agora (the marketplace in ancient Greece)

 Context examples 

To Winchester, Linn mart, Bristol fair, Stourbridge, and Bartholomew's in London Town.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mart Eden, the hoodlum, and Mart Eden, the sailor, had been real, had been he; but Martin Eden! the famous writer, did not exist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)