'marketplace' definitions:
Definition of 'marketplace'
(from WordNet)
noun
The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace" [syn: market, marketplace, market place]
noun
An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up [syn: marketplace, market place, mart, market]
Definition of 'marketplace'
From: GCIDE
- marketplace \marketplace\ n.
- 1. an area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market[2].
- Syn: mart. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. The commercial activity whereby good and services are exchanged; as, without competition there would be no market.
- Syn: market. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. The mechanism by which one finds a person to whom to sell or from whom to buy goods; the opportunity to buy and sell; a market[3]; as, to put one's goods on the market. [PJC]
Definition of 'marketplace'
From: Easton
- Market-place any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matt. 11:16; 20:3), as well as a forum or market-place proper, where goods were exposed for sale, and where public assemblies and trials were held (Acts 16:19; 17:17). This word occurs in the Old Testament only in Ezek. 27:13.
- In early times markets were held at the gates of cities, where commodities were exposed for sale (2 Kings 7:18). In large towns the sale of particular articles seems to have been confined to certain streets, as we may infer from such expressions as "the bakers' street" (Jer. 37:21), and from the circumstance that in the time of Josephus the valley between Mounts Zion and Moriah was called the Tyropoeon or the "valley of the cheesemakers."
Synonyms of 'marketplace'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agora,
- amphitheater,
- arena,
- athletic field,
- auditorium,
- auto show,
- background,
- bazaar,
- bear garden,
- boat show,
- bowl,
- boxing ring,
- bull ring,
- campo,
- campus,
- canvas,
- circus,
- cockpit,
- coliseum,
- colosseum,
- commercial complex,
- course,
- emporium,
- exposition,
- fair,
- field,
- flea fair,
- flea market,
- floor,
- forum,
- ground,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- hall,
- hippodrome,
- lists,
- locale,
- market,
- market cross,
- market overt,
- mart,
- mat,
- milieu,
- open forum,
- open market,
- palaestra,
- parade ground,
- piazza,
- pit,
- place,
- platform,
- plaza,
- precinct,
- prize ring,
- public square,
- purlieu,
- range,
- rialto,
- ring,
- scene,
- scene of action,
- scenery,
- setting,
- shopping center,
- shopping mall,
- shopping plaza,
- show,
- site,
- sphere,
- square,
- squared circle,
- stadium,
- stage,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- staple,
- street market,
- terrain,
- theater,
- tilting ground,
- tiltyard,
- trade fair,
- walk,
- wrestling ring