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Mart vs Marketplace - What's the difference?

mart | marketplace |

As nouns the difference between mart and marketplace

is that mart is a market while marketplace is an open area in a town housing a public market.

As a verb mart

is to buy or sell in, or as in a mart.

mart

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from (etyl) mercatus; see market.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A market.
  • * (William Cowper)
    • Where has commerce such a mart as London?
  • (obsolete) A bargain.
  • * 1616 ,
    • Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.
  • (obsolete) To traffic.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) Mars (stem Mart- ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mart — The god .
  • (obsolete) Battle; contest.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    marketplace

    English

    Alternative forms

    * market place

    Noun

    (wikipedia marketplace) (en noun)
  • An open area in a town housing a public market.
  • The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.
  • (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.

    • Related terms

    * market square