market town

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   a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times

   Broadertown

Questions about market town

What does market town mean?

market town means "a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times".

Is market town a common word?

market town is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.