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bazaar

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bəˈzɑː(ɹ)//
  • United States//bəˈzɑɹ//
  • Australia//bəˈzɐː//
  • //bəˈzɑr//
  • //ˈbɑzɑr//

A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.

noun

  1. 1

    A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.

  2. 2

    A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.

  3. 3

    A fair or temporary market, often for charity.

    ...quoting a paragraph from the Morning Post which announced the intention of Lady Anne Granard, with her beautiful daughters, to preside at one of the stalls, at a grand fancy bazaar, in Kemp Town, which was expected to be the gayest scene and the most splendid assemblage of royalty and nobility ever beheld in Brighton.

Etymology

From Middle French bazar or Italian bazar, from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bazar), from Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Forms

plural
bazaars
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).