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street market

street market noun: a temporary public market, normally set up outdoors on certain days of the week, typically in open-air public spaces such as streets, squares, avenues or parking lots.

Noun

street market (plural street markets)

  1. A temporary public market, normally set up outdoors on certain days of the week, typically in open-air public spaces such as streets, squares, avenues or parking lots.
    • The backbone of the old Cockney kingdom of Lambeth used to be Lambeth Walk, the famous old street market that runs parallel to the river behind Lambeth Road.1975, Philip Howard, London's River, page 107
    • Buy a bog-standard one at the street market in Souk Chaaria, near the Musee de Marrakech.2007 September 2, Fiona Dunlop, “North Africa for food lovers.”, in The Guardian

Forms of street market

pluralstreet markets

Questions about street market

What does street market mean?
Street market means a temporary public market, normally set up outdoors on certain days of the week, typically in open-air public spaces such as streets, squares, avenues or parking lots.
What part of speech is street market?
Street market is a noun.
What is the plural of street market?
The plural of street market is street markets.

Words near street market in the dictionary

  1. street light
  2. street lights
  3. street luge
  4. street map
  5. street maps
  6. street market
  7. street markets
  8. street mirror
  9. street mirrors
  10. street money
  11. street musician

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