bazaar

a shop; a fair where merchandise is sold: I found some lovely vases at the bazaar.

Not to be confused with:

bizarre – strikingly unconventional or far-fetched: He was behaving in a very bizarre way.

ba·zaar

also ba·zar (bə-zär′)

1. A market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, especially one in the Middle East.

2. A shop or a part of a store in which miscellaneous articles are sold.

3. A fair or sale at which miscellaneous articles are sold, often for charitable purposes.

[Italian bazarro and Urdu bāzār, both from Persian bāzār; see wes- in Indo-European roots.]

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bazaar

(bəˈzɑː) or

bazar

1. (Commerce) (esp in the Orient) a market area, esp a street of small stalls

2. (Commerce) a sale in aid of charity, esp of miscellaneous secondhand or handmade articles

3. (Commerce) a shop where a large variety of goods is sold

[C16: from Persian bāzār, from Old Persian abēcharish]

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ba•zaar

(bəˈzɑr)

n.

1. a marketplace, esp. one in the Middle East.

2. a sale of miscellaneous articles to benefit some cause.

3. a store in which many kinds of goods are sold.

Sometimes, ba•zar′.

[1590–1600; earlier bazarro < Italian « Persian bāzār market]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	bazaar - a shop where a variety of goods are sold bazar shop, store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
	2.	bazaar - a street of small shops (especially in Orient) bazar market place, mart, marketplace, market - an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
	3.	bazaar - a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar" fair cut-rate sale, sales event, sale - an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices; "they held a sale to reduce their inventory"; "I got some great bargains at their annual sale" book fair, bookfair - bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause craft fair - a fair at which objects made by craftsmen are offered for sale

bazaar

noun

1. market, exchange, fair, marketplace, mart He was a vendor in Egypt's open-air bazaar.

2. fair, fête, gala, festival, garden party, bring-and-buy a church bazaar

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Translations

سوقسوق أدوات يَدَوِيّه أو رَخيصَه)

bazarorientální trhtržiště

basarloppemarked

Basar Wohltätigkeitsbasar

bazar foire marché mercanti

bazár

basarbasar, markaîur

bazar vendita benefica

mugėrytietiškas turgus

labdarības tirdziņštirgus

basar loppemarked marked

bazar

bazaar

[bəˈzɑːʳ] N → bazar m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bazaar

[bəˈzɑː^r] n

(= market) → bazar m

(= event) → vente f de charité

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bazaar

n → Basar m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bazaar

[bəˈzɑːʳ] n (sale of work) → vendita di beneficenza; (Oriental market) → bazar m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bazaar

(bəˈzaː) noun

1. an Eastern market place.

2. a sale of goods of various kinds, especially home-made or second-hand.

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Crowds of the kind seen at cheap sales filled all the passages and alleys of the Bazaar. But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers- but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles.

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Seen moving about, far away in the dim, arched aisles of the Great Bazaar, they look as the shrouded dead must have looked when they walked forth from their graves amid the storms and thunders and earthquakes that burst upon Calvary that awful night of the Crucifixion.

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Rabbit was a widow; she earned her living by knitting rabbit-wool mittens and muffetees (I once bought a pair at a bazaar).

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A few minutes brought us to a large and busy bazaar, with the localities of which the stranger appeared well acquainted, and where his original demeanor again became apparent, as he forced his way to and fro, without aim, among the host of buyers and sellers.

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With a wave of his hand he would speak of a certain bazaar in Hyderabad.

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Fortunately she remembered about her father and the bazaar. He had gone to a fashionable bazaar where all the most beautiful ladies in London were on view for half-a-crown the second day, but on his return home instead of being dissatisfied with Maimie's mother he had said, "You can't think, my dear, what a relief it is to see a homely face again."

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Her volubility, which I remembered of old, had lost nothing in the intervening years, and she poured out a steady flood of conversation, mainly on the subject of the forthcoming bazaar which she was organizing and which was to take place shortly.

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Stephen was too well bred not to seem unaware that the previous conversation could have been felt embarrassing, and at once began to talk of impersonal matters, asking Lucy if she knew when the bazaar was at length to take place, so that there might be some hope of seeing her rain the influence of her eyes on objects more grateful than those worsted flowers that were growing under her fingers.

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Trabb had taken unto himself the best table, and had got all the leaves up, and was holding a kind of black Bazaar, with the aid of a quantity of black pins.

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Rich furs and strange iridescent mats from some Oriental bazaar were scattered upon the floor.

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As for the wonders of Bombay its famous city hall, its splendid library, its forts and docks, its bazaars, mosques, synagogues, its Armenian churches, and the noble pagoda on Malabar Hill, with its two polygonal towers-- he cared not a straw to see them.

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It was a good way to keep him out of mischief, and later on his sketches would be useful for bazaars. Two or three of them had been framed and hung in his bed-room.

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