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MARKET DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does market day mean?
• MARKET DAY (noun)
The noun MARKET DAY has 1 sense:
1. a fixed day for holding a public market
Familiarity information: MARKET DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fixed day for holding a public market
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("market day" is a kind of...):
day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)
Context examples
It was market day at Redhill, and the road was crowded with carts of produce, droves of bullocks, and farmers’ gigs.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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