MARKET CROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does market cross mean? 

• MARKET CROSS (noun)
  The noun MARKET CROSS has 1 sense:

1. a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted

  Familiarity information: MARKET CROSS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKET CROSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("market cross" is a kind of...):

monument (an important site that is marked and preserved as public property)