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market town

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market town
n
(Social Science / Human Geography) Chiefly Brit a town that holds a market, esp an agricultural centre in a rural area
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Noun1.market townmarket town - a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times
town - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work"


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It ran up from a small market town through a dreary undulating moorland, forking off here and there to unknown villages of which the horizon gave no hint.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
She answered by return of post that she must see him and announced her intention to pawn things (she had the dressing-case which Philip had given her as a wedding-present and could raise eight pounds on that) in order to come up and stay at the market town four miles from which was the village in which his father practised.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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