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market-house

market-house noun: a building in which a market takes place.

Noun

market-house (plural market-houses)

  1. (obsolete) A building in which a market takes place.
    • A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of market-house

pluralmarket-houses

Questions about market-house

What does market-house mean?
Market-house means a building in which a market takes place.
What part of speech is market-house?
Market-house is a noun.
What is the plural of market-house?
The plural of market-house is market-houses.

Words near market-house in the dictionary

  1. market-day
  2. market-garden
  3. market-gardens
  4. market-goer
  5. market-goers
  6. market-house
  7. market-houses
  8. market-led
  9. market-maker
  10. market-makers
  11. market-place

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