MARKET TOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does market town mean? 

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

1. a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKET TOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

 Context examples 

Their two confidential friends, Mr Shepherd, who lived in the neighbouring market town, and Lady Russell, were called to advise them; and both father and daughter seemed to expect that something should be struck out by one or the other to remove their embarrassments and reduce their expenditure, without involving the loss of any indulgence of taste or pride.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)