SLAVE MARKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slave market mean? 

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

1. a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAVE MARKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)