- a market or street of shops and stalls, esp. in Middle Eastern countries
- a shop for selling various kinds of goods
- a sale of various articles, usually to raise money for a club, church, etc.
Origin of bazaar
Persian b?z?r, a market
Dried food for sale at a bazaar.
The definition of a bazaar is a shopping district or market where a variety of goods are sold.
An example of a bazaar is a Middle Eastern market outside with many booths selling different items.
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bazaar
also ba·zar
noun
- A market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, especially one in the Middle East.
- A shop or a part of a store in which miscellaneous articles are sold.
- A fair or sale at which miscellaneous articles are sold, often for charitable purposes.
Origin of bazaar
Italian bazarro and Urdu bāzār both from Persian bāzār ; see wes-3 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural bazaars)
Origin
From Italian bazarra, from Persian بازار (bâzâr, “market”), from Middle Persian wʾčʾl (wāzār), from earlier wāčār (compare Old Armenian վաճառ (vačaṙ)), from Old Persian [script?] (vahā-čarana, “market-walkabout”), compound of Proto-Indo-European *wesā- (“to buy”) and *kʷéle/o (“to turn”). More at vend and wheel.
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Sentence Examples
- The well-stocked bazaar supplies the neighbouring districts.
- The native quarters are well laid out, with a large bazaar for Afghan traders.
- The bazaar is small, although a thriving trade is done with the mountain districts.
- Below the ziarat, and nearly opposite to the site of the present Karkin bazaar, the position of a lost ferry was identified, which had once been marked by a riverside hamlet called by the name of the saint.
- The old town, containing several mosques and synagogues and a bazaar, preserves its oriental appearance; the citadel is used as a military magazine.
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