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market-stead

market-stead is the alternative form of marketstead.

Meaning of marketstead

Noun

marketstead (plural marketsteads)

  1. (obsolete) A marketplace.
    • Putting their Vaward on, and their best Archers plac’d
      The Market-sted about, and them so fitly laid.1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 44

Forms of market-stead

pluralmarket-steads

Questions about market-stead

What is market-stead the alternative form of?
Market-stead is the alternative form of marketstead.

Words near market-stead in the dictionary

  1. market-place
  2. market-places
  3. market-ripe
  4. market-share
  5. market-shares
  6. market-stead
  7. market-steads
  8. market-town
  9. market-towns
  10. market-urbanist
  11. marketabilities

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