MEANING
A town traditionally serving as a center for trade and markets for its surrounding area.
Use it for
Regional commerce; weekly rhythms; exchange between town and countrysideMake trade the reason people converge on a settlement.
Words that belong together
- historic market town
- prosperous market town
- market town with a weekly market
On the page
On Fridays, the market town doubled its population.
Farmers from six villages brought their produce to the market town.
The bypass weakened a market town that had once controlled local trade.
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Word forms
- Base
- market town
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Especially familiar in British historical and geographical writing. A town with a supermarket is not automatically a market town. Plural: market towns. No other inflection applies to this noun.
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