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marchant

marchant is the obsolete form of merchant.

Meaning of merchant

Noun

merchant (plural merchants)

  1. A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
    Synonyms:
    trader
  2. The owner or operator of a retail business.
  3. A trading vessel; a merchantman.
    • Every day, some sailor's wife, / The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, / Have just our theme of woe.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  4. (derogatory, informal, sometimes) Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour.
    • He's some kind of speed merchant — he drives way too fast.
  5. (obsolete) A supercargo.

See all 7 meanings of merchant

Proper noun capitalized: Marchant

Marchant (plural Marchants)

  1. A surname.

Forms of marchant

Noun
pluralmarchants
Proper noun
pluralMarchants

Questions about marchant

What does marchant mean?
Marchant means a surname.
What is marchant the obsolete form of?
Marchant is the obsolete form of merchant.
What part of speech is marchant?
Marchant is a proper noun.

Words near marchant in the dictionary

  1. marchand de vin
  2. marchand de vin sauce
  3. marchand de vin sauces
  4. Marchands
  5. Marchans
  6. marchant
  7. marchantiaceous
  8. marchantiid
  9. marchantiids
  10. marchantin
  11. marchantins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marchant (page history and authors); Marchant (page history and authors); merchant (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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