mart

¹

[ mahrt ]

noun

1. market; trading center; trade center.
2. a building, center, or exposition for the sale of goods by manufacturers and wholesalers to retail merchants.
3. Archaic. a fair.
4. Obsolete. bargain.

mart

²

[ mahrt ]

noun

, Scot. and North England.

1. a cow or ox fattened for slaughter.

mart

/ mɑːt /

noun

1. a market or trading centre

Word History and Origins

Origin of mart¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle Dutch mar ( c ) t market

Origin of mart²

1300–50; Middle English < Scots Gaelic; compare MIr mart ox or cow slaughtered for meat, carcass, hence a live ox or cow

Word History and Origins

Origin of mart¹

C15: from Middle Dutch mart market

Example Sentences

Remarkably honest and written in animated terms, Crying in H Mart is a potent and devastating portrait of a mother and daughter and the life that they shared.

From Time

There’s a moment in Crying in H Mart where Zauner mentions how much Karen O, the half-Korean frontwoman of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, impacted her decision to make music.

From Vox

There’s always so much packed onto the shelves, an entire universe of snacking, despite the limited space inherent in the phrase “gas station mini mart.”

From Eater

After graduating, Yong Chin borrowed money from friends to open a liquor mart in Los Angeles.

From Time

Four Maryland men have been arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of a food mart worker, Prince George’s County police said Thursday in a news release.

From Washington Post

In an Ohio Wal-Mart, John Crawford III was strolling around the store and had picked up an air rifle that was for sale there.

From The Daily Beast

Even a frugal firm like Wal-Mart is enlarging its Silicon Valley presence.

From The Daily Beast

If you think of her in retail terms, Hillary is Costco, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot all rolled into one mega-mega-mega-store.

From The Daily Beast

“I do all this stuff in the community and the haji mart over there,” he said, using the slang for Iraqis used by U.S. soldiers.

From The Daily Beast

At the opening-night party, Mart Crowley saw Mae West sitting alone, except for the company of two musclemen bodyguards.

From The Daily Beast

The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.

From Project Gutenberg

The city, by the advantages which it affords, daily improves, and is the largest mart in Asia within the Taurus.

From Project Gutenberg

Situated as it was in the centre of the county, it was a convenient mart for barley, and great quantities of malt were made.

From Project Gutenberg

Never a day dawned but the parson and Emma went to town by an omnibus, looking at things in this mart, buying in that.

From Project Gutenberg

When he found out who we were, he stopped swearing and got up out of the bunk to put his hand on Mart Kirgan's shoulder.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bazaar
• emporium