Bazaar
/bəˈzɐː/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
- 2 a sale of miscellany; often for charity wordnet
- 3 A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.
- 4 a shop where a variety of goods are sold wordnet
- 5 A fair or temporary market, often for charity.
"...quoting a paragraph from the Morning Post which announced the intention of Lady Anne Granard, with her beautiful daughters, to preside at one of the stalls, at a grand fancy bazaar, in Kemp Town, which was expected to be the gayest scene and the most splendid assemblage of royalty and nobility ever beheld in Brighton."
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- 6 a street of small shops (especially in Orient) wordnet
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More examples"The bazaar ended a great success."
Etymology
From Middle French bazar or Italian bazar, from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bazar), from Persian بازار (bâzâr).