marketplace

See also: market place

English

Alternative forms

• market place

Etymology

market +‎ place

Noun

marketplace (plural marketplaces)

1. An open area in a town housing a public market.
2. The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.

   Some high-street retailers were slow to enter the new digital marketplace of the Internet.

3. (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.
4. (figurative) A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.
   • 2000, Jason A. Frank, ‎John Tambornino, Vocations of Political Theory (page 239)

     While political theory frequently appears condemned to nostalgic reflection, cultural studies often dulls its critical edge in the never-ending stampede to document the newest styles and counterstyles of the cultural marketplace.

Related terms

• market square

Translations

open area in a town housing a public market

• Chichewa: msika
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 草市 (zh) (cǎoshì), 市井 (zh) (shìjǐng), 市場／市场 (zh) (shìchǎng), 市场 (zh) (shìchǎng)

• Danish: markedsplads c
• Dongxiang: baza
• Finnish: tori (fi)
• French: marché (fr) m
• Galician: mercado m, praza f
• German: Marktplatz (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 n (maþl)
• Hungarian: piactér (hu), vásártér (hu)
• Irish: log margaidh m
• Italian: mercato (it) m
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• Japanese: 墟市 (きょし, kyoshi), 草市 (そうし, sōshi), 市場 (ja) (いちば, ichiba)
• Latin: forum (la) n
• Macedonian: пазар m (pazar)
• Malay: pekan, pasar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: markedsplass (no) m

  Nynorsk: marknadsplass m

• Persian: بازار (fa) (bâzâr), چارسوق (fa) (čârsuq)
• Portuguese: mercado (pt) m
• Russian: ры́нок (ru) m (rýnok), база́р (ru) m (bazár)
• Spanish: mercado (es) m
• Swedish: marknadsplats (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: bungples

space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates

• Finnish: tori (fi)
• French: marché (fr) m, place du marché f
• German: Marktplatz (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 n (maþl)
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• Latin: macellum n
• Russian: ры́ночная пло́щадь f (rýnočnaja plóščadʹ), база́рная пло́щадь f (bazárnaja plóščadʹ)
• Swedish: marknad (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: bungples

the world of commerce and trade

• Finnish: markkinat (fi) pl
• French: marché (fr) m
• German: Marktplatz (de) m
• Macedonian: тр́говија f (tŕgovija)
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• Persian: بازار (fa) (bâzâr)
• Russian: ры́нок (ru) m (rýnok)
• Swedish: marknad (sv) c