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flea market

flea market noun: an outdoor temporary market selling inexpensive antiques, curios, etc.

Noun

flea market (plural flea markets)

  1. An outdoor temporary market selling inexpensive antiques, curios, etc.
    • Although things are sold cheaper at the flea market, it's always a good idea to check whether the item is stolen.
    Synonyms:
    swap meet
  2. A permanent indoor market of stalls in a warehouse selling inexpensive antiques, outdated goods, curios, etc.
    • The Towne Hall is a big inflatable building in the middle of the Snooze ’n’ Crusie. It is Derelict Las Vegas: convenience store, video arcade, laundromat, bar, liquor store, flea market, whorehouse.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 276

flea market meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Kannada and Tagalog

flea market in Hindi

an outdoor market selling inexpensive antiques, curios
चोर बाज़ार cor bāzār

flea market in Urdu

an outdoor market selling inexpensive antiques, curios
لنڈا بازار lundā bazār

flea market in Kannada

ಬಯಲು ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ, ಹಾದಿ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ, ಬೀದಿ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ

flea market in Tagalog

an outdoor market selling inexpensive antiques, curios
tiangge
More languagesFewer languages
flea market in Malay
pasar lambak
flea market in Indonesian
pasar loak
flea market in Persian
بنجل بازار bonjol-bâzâr
flea market in Thai
ตลาดนัด dtà-làat-nát
flea market in Vietnamese
chợ trời
Dzongkha
སྤྱོད་འཕྲོ་བཙོང་ས spyod 'phro btsong sa

Synonyms of flea market

Forms of flea market

pluralflea markets
alternative formfleamarket
alternative formflea-market

Origin of flea market

Calque of French marché aux puces.

Questions about flea market

What does flea market mean?
Flea market means an outdoor temporary market selling inexpensive antiques, curios, etc.
What is flea market in Hindi?
Flea market in Hindi is चोर बाज़ार (cor bāzār). See Flea market meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is flea market?
Flea market is a noun.
What is the plural of flea market?
The plural of flea market is flea markets.

Words near flea market in the dictionary

  1. flea collar
  2. flea collars
  3. flea flicker
  4. flea flickers
  5. flea in one's ear
  6. flea market
  7. flea marketer
  8. flea marketers
  9. flea markets
  10. flea pit
  11. flea pits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flea market (page history and authors); flea market (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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