BAZAAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bazaar mean? 

• BAZAAR (noun)
  The noun BAZAAR has 3 senses:

1. a shop where a variety of goods are sold

2. a street of small shops (especially in Orient)

3. a sale of miscellany; often for charity

  Familiarity information: BAZAAR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAZAAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shop where a variety of goods are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bazaar; bazar

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

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A street of small shops (especially in Orient)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bazaar; bazar

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

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sale of miscellany; often for charity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bazaar; fair

Context example:

the church bazaar

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

cut-rate sale; sale; sales event (an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices)

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

book fair; bookfair (bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause)

craft fair (a fair at which objects made by craftsmen are offered for sale)

 Context examples 

Rich furs and strange iridescent mats from some Oriental bazaar were scattered upon the floor.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you have a fancy for anything in that line, away with you, sir, to the bazaars of Stamboul without delay, and lay out in extensive slave- purchases some of that spare cash you seem at a loss to spend satisfactorily here.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)