MARKET SQUARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does market square mean? 

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

1. a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKET SQUARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

market square; open-air market; open-air marketplace

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

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

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

farmer's market; green market; greenmarket (an open-air marketplace for farm products)

souk (an open-air market in an Arabian city)

flea market (an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles)

 Context examples 

My heart was nigh broke, for it seemed that I had left all that was English behind me, and that I would never set eyes upon Norwich market square again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)