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market town

market town noun: a town that has a traditional right to hold a regular market.

Noun

market town (plural market towns)

  1. A town that has a traditional right to hold a regular market.
    • P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located...1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2
    • Chan Sam had already received two receipts, one from the banking institution in Hong Kong to which he had sent his draft, and another from the broker in the market town of Shekki, which served several satellite villages including Chang Gar Bin. A courier had carried the draft from Hong Kong to...1994, Denise Chong, “Chapter Three”, in The Concubine's Children, Penguin Books, published 1996, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38

market town meaning in Tamil

market town in Tamil

சந்தை நகரம்

Examples of market town in a sentence

  • It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops.1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2:
  • With the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway, Swindon began a remarkable transformation as what had been a modest market town quickly became a centre of industrial activity.2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:

Forms of market town

pluralmarket towns
alternative formmarket-town

Questions about market town

What does market town mean?
Market town means a town that has a traditional right to hold a regular market.
What is market town in Tamil?
Market town in Tamil is சந்தை நகரம். See Market town meaning in Tamil.
How do you use market town in a sentence?
It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops.
What part of speech is market town?
Market town is a noun.
What is the plural of market town?
The plural of market town is market towns.

Words near market town in the dictionary

  1. market steads
  2. market supplement
  3. market supplements
  4. market timing
  5. market timings
  6. market town
  7. market towns
  8. market urbanism
  9. market urbanist
  10. market urbanists
  11. market value

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Adapted from Wiktionary: market town (page history and authors); market town (Tamil 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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