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cheapstead

cheapstead noun: a marketplace.

Noun

cheapstead (plural cheapsteads)

  1. (historical, rare) A marketplace.
    • […] three weeks of winter were employed in butchering, and more than an acre of field surrounding the cheapstead at Housewick was covered with knots of men and women decapitating and flaying their flocks.1879, Charles George Warnford Lock, Clement le Neve Foster, The home of the Eddas
    • Sleet showers continued until we reached the cheapstead of Akureyri (Acre Beach), at the south end of the fjord.1900, Manchester Geographical Society, The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society

Forms of cheapstead

pluralcheapsteads

Origin of cheapstead

From cheap (“purchase, business, market”) + stead (“place”), probably a translation of Old Norse kaupstaðr (“marketplace”). Compare Icelandic kaupstaður (“market town”), Swedish köpstad (“market town”), Old English ċēapstōw (“marketplace”).

Questions about cheapstead

What does cheapstead mean?
Cheapstead means a marketplace.
What part of speech is cheapstead?
Cheapstead is a noun.
What is the plural of cheapstead?
The plural of cheapstead is cheapsteads.

Words near cheapstead in the dictionary

  1. cheapshot
  2. cheapshots
  3. Cheapside
  4. cheapskate
  5. cheapskates
  6. cheapstead
  7. cheapsteads
  8. cheapster
  9. cheapsters
  10. cheapy
  11. chear

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