mart
nounverbnounnounnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//mɑːt//
- United States//mɑɹt//
A shop, a store, a market.
noun
- 1
A shop, a store, a market.
FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart
- 2
A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
Their facility is one of the largest livestock auction marts in the Scottish Highlands.
Come out of it my Soul, thou art not fit For this vile traffic-house, where day by day Wisdom and reverence are sold at mart, And the rude people rage with ignorant cries Against an heritage of centuries. It mars my calm: wherefore in dreams of Art And loftiest culture I would stand apart, Neither for God, nor for his enemies.
Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him, And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner: Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret; A man is Maſter of his libertie:
- 3
obsoleteA bargain.
Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
To sell and mart your officer for gold To undeservers.
- 2
obsoleteTo traffic.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA battle; a contest.
Etymology
From Latin Mārs. See Mart.
noun
- 1
historicalA marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
Etymology
Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.
noun
- 1
A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
- 2
Salt beef.
Etymology
Scottish English, from Middle English, from a Scottish Gaelic root, see mart (“cow prepared for killing”).
Forms
- plural
- marts
- past tense
- marted
- past participle
- marted
- present participle
- marting
- third person singular
- marts