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Definition of Market town
1. Noun. A (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times.
Definition of Market town
1. Noun. a town that has a traditional right to hold a regular market ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Market Town
Literary usage of Market town
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"PORTADOWN, ¡i market-town of Armagh, Ireland, is situated on the river Bann, and
on the Great Northern Railway, 2.) miles west-southwest of Belfast and 10 ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"... shall not take an apprentice (unless his own son) whose parent hath not 40s.
per annum inheritance, or freehold ; nor, in a market town, 8cc. whose ..."
3. Selected Readings in Economics by Charles Jesse Bullock (1907)
"An English market town of the Eighteenth Century' From Aberforth we turned West,
... market town ..."
4. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"[283] For a youth of station, born and reared in a certain market-town not ...
On making his full profession, he became known as Tissa of the Market-town, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"BRIDGWATER, a market town, port and municipal borough in the Bridgwater parliamentary
division of Somerset, England, on the river Parrel, ..."
6. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1852)
"... called it by the name of Bucks, and that the sd Countie has had no market
town; And that severalls in the said Countie have Considered of a ..."
7. History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, by by John Wesley Monette (1848)
"Brownsville laid out; becomes an important Point.—First Newspaper in the
West.—Pittsburgh becomes a market town in 1788.—Trade and Manufactures spring up. ..."
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