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Definition: Market Town |
Market TownNoun1. A (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Market Town |
| English words defined with "market town": blazon out ♦ cry ♦ Owensboro ♦ Village cart. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "market town": Appii Forum. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Market towns often grew up close to fortified places, such as castles, in order to enjoy their protection. They tended to be located where transport was easiest: for example, at a crossroads or close to a river ford.
The most obvious feature of the traditional market town is a very wide main street or market place, with room for stalls and booths to be set up on market days. A market cross often stood in the centre of the town, as a way of obtaining God's blessing on the trade. The best remaining examples of market crosses in England are at Chichester and Malmesbury. There would often be a market hall, with administrative quarters at first floor level, above the covered market.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Market town."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
country market town | 9 |
cow flea market town | 2 |
china market town wholesale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "market town"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | kauppala (township, urban district). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | marktstätdchen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | balley margee. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | arketmay owntay город (borough, burg, city, corporate town, municipality, Parliamentary borough, post-town, town), в котором происходят базары. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-m-n-o-r-t-t-w" | |
-2 letters: teamwork, workmate. | |
-3 letters: knotter, network, tomenta, tonearm, torment, workman, workmen. | |
-4 letters: atoner, attorn, awoken, enamor, knower, market, marten, matron, matter, mentor, moaner, natter, notate, omenta, ornate, ratten, ratton, rotate, rotten, tanker, torten, wanter, watter, womera. | |
-5 letters: ament, amort, antre, armet, atone, awoke, enorm, korat, krona, krone, maker, manor, mater, matte, meant, menta, metro, monte. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 6B 65 74 54 6F 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r k e t   T o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 006B 0065 0074 0054 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476784777186254818980 |
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