Marketplace
['mɑːkɪtpleɪs] or ['mɑrkɪtples]
Definition
(noun.) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
Edited by Lelia--From WordNet
Examples
- When a man steals cattle, they cut off his right hand and left leg and nail them up in the marketplace as a warning to everybody. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The market people crowd the marketplace with their baskets of figs, dates, melons, apricots, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Claudette