Other forms: markets
A market is the open place with many small stands selling goods. The Saturday market, a market stall, market square.
Many English towns hold a charter granting the right to a market, some of them eight hundred years old, and the market square is often the oldest open space in the town. The word also means the whole trade in something — the housing market, the labour market — and the demand for it: there is no market for that. Note marketing, market share, on the market.
1nounmarketA place where many stalls sell goods.
“We buy fresh fruit and vegetables at the market every Saturday.”
2nountradeThe trade in something, or the demand for it.
“There's a big market for electric cars in Europe now.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
market is a place or system of trade.
Latin mercatus means trade or a market, from mercor, to trade, and behind it merx, goods. Merchant, commerce and mercy come from the same trading.
Latin
mercātus — trade, market
Old French
marchié
Anglo-Norman
markiet
Old English
market — market
Middle English
market
English, today
market
Built from
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). a doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish - and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese - and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA