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Definition of Market square

1. Noun. A public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold.

Definition of Market square

1. Noun. An open area in a town housing a public market, often on just one day per week; a marketplace. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Market Square

Literary usage of Market square

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"... continued to sing west-country songs and Puritan hymns into the small hours of the morning. XVII OF THE GATHERING IN THE MARKET-SQUARE THE ..."

2. The US Virgin Islands Alive! by Harriet Greenberg, Douglas Greenberg (2006)
"market square & Savan market square (De Market) at Main Street and Savan Gade, once the slave auction center, is now a vegetable and handicraft center. ..."

3. A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes by Seymour Dunbar (1915)
"In Cincinnati the city's fire department assembled in market square, as here shown, and threw water into the air. St. Louis held a big torch-light ..."

4. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott (1884)
"It stood on Church Lane, one mile northeast of market square, and was at a later period known as Roberts' mill. On the left bank of Cheater Creek, ..."

5. Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier (1884)
"market square and Hall.—First Unitarian Church.—Lincoln Park. — Eastern Cemetery.—Deering's Woods.—Commercial Street.—Old-time Mansion. ..."

6. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"The Market House, herein before mentioned, is a building standing in the centre of the said market square, and has existed, as far back as living memory ..."

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