MARKET SQUARE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold

Synonyms:

market square; open-air market; open-air marketplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("market square" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market square"):

farmer's market; green market; greenmarket (an open-air marketplace for farm products)

souk (an open-air market in an Arabian city)

flea market (an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles)