Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

market-house

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.15 in modern English

Syllables: mar-ket--house
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A building in which a market takes place.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

market-houses (plural)

Questions

What does market-house mean?: A building in which a market takes place.

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