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mart Meaning & Definition

/mɑɹt/

What Does Mart Mean?

Mart is a noun that means A shop, a store, a market. It is also used to mean A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace. A cattle market or cattle fair. As a verb, it means To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.

Mart in Brief

Part of speechnoun, verb
Pronunciation/mɑɹt/
Synonymsmarketplace
Pluralmarts
Verb formsmarts, marting, marted

Mart Definition (Noun)

  1. A shop, a store, a market.

    FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart

  2. A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace. A cattle market or cattle fair.

    In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.

  3. A cattle market or cattle fair.

    In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.

  4. A bargain.

Mart as a Verb

  1. To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  2. To traffic.

Noun

  1. A battle; a contest.

Noun

  1. A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

Noun

  1. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
  2. Salt beef.

Noun

  1. A market.

Noun

  1. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque.
  2. A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model).
  3. A ship commissioned for making captures.

Noun

  1. Battle; contest.

Synonyms of Mart

Mart synonyms and antonyms →

Mart in a Sentence

FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart

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.

Word Forms & Grammar

mart (plural marts)

mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)

mart (uncountable)

Words That Rhyme With Mart

Origin of Mart

Origin 1: 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.

Origin 2: From Latin Mārs. See Mart.

Origin 3: Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.

Origin 4: Scottish English, from Middle English, from a Scottish Gaelic root, see mart (“cow prepared for killing”).

Mart: Your Questions Answered

Is mart a noun or a verb?

Mart is mainly used as a noun, but it can also be used as a verb.

What is another word for mart?

You can replace mart with words such as marketplace. See the full list of mart synonyms and antonyms.

What is the plural of mart?

The plural of mart is marts.

What is the past tense of mart?

The past tense of mart is marted. The present participle is marting.

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