mart
/mɑːt/US/mɑɹt/
mart noun: a shop, a store, a market.
Noun (1)
mart (plural marts)
- A shop, a store, a market.
- FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart
- A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
- In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
- Their facility is one of the largest livestock auction marts in the Scottish Highlands.
- A bargain.
- Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part,
And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part,
Verb
mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)
- To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
- To sell and mart your officer for gold
To undeservers.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To sell and mart your officer for gold
- To traffic.
Noun (2)
mart (plural marts)
Noun (3)
mart (uncountable)
- A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
Noun (4)
mart (plural marts)
- A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
- Salt beef.
Proper noun capitalized: Mart
Mart
- A diminutive of the male given name Martin.
- He looked at me when introduced and said “Mart's boy!” 'I was in fact Martin's grandson, but didn't bother splitting hairs — […]2015, Deborah Coddington, The Good Life On Te Muna Road
- Mars, god of war.
mart meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mart in Hindi
- मार्ट, मार्त
mart in Tamil
- அங்காடி, கடைத்தெரு, கடை
mart in Marathi
- मार्ट, मार्त
mart in Urdu
- بازار, کٹرا, منڈی
More languagesFewer languages
- mart in Bengali
- হাট, বাজার, বাণিজ্যস্থান, গঁজ
- mart in Telugu
- మార్ట్
- mart in Malayalam
- മാർട്ട്, മാർട്ടിലേക്കും
- mart in Kannada
- ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ
- mart in Punjabi
- ਮਾਰਟ, ਮਾਰੱਟ
- mart in Gujarati
- માર્ટ, માર્ત
- mart in Odia
- ମାର୍ଟ, ମାର୍ଟ୍, ମାର୍ଟକୁ
- mart in Nepali
- मार्ट
Examples of mart in a sentence
- And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 23:3:
- The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to him who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Go, Woman!”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co....
Forms of mart
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | marts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | marts |
| present participle | marting |
| past participle | marted |
| past | marted |
Origin of mart
From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.
From Latin Mārs. See Mart.
Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.
Words formed from mart
Phrases with mart
Words that rhyme with mart
32 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about mart
- What does mart mean?
- Mart means a shop, a store, a market.
- What is mart in Hindi?
- Mart in Hindi is मार्ट, मार्त. See Mart meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use mart in a sentence?
- And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.
- What part of speech is mart?
- Mart can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mart?
- Mart is pronounced /mɑɹt/ (US).
- What is the plural of mart?
- The plural of mart is marts.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mart (page history and authors); Mart (page history and authors); mart (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mart (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mart (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mart (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mart (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mart (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mart (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mart (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mart (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mart (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mart (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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