marketplace : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: marketplace	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for marketplace
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
marketplace n the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace" Synonym(s): market, marketplace, market place an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up Synonym(s): marketplace, market place, mart, market
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Market-place any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matt. 11:16; 20:3), as well as a forum or market-place proper, where goods were exposed for sale, and where public assemblies and trials were held (Acts 16:19; 17:17). This word occurs in the Old Testament only in Ezek. 27:13. In early times markets were held at the gates of cities, where commodities were exposed for sale (2 Kings 7:18). In large towns the sale of particular articles seems to have been confined to certain streets, as we may infer from such expressions as "the bakers' street" (Jer. 37:21), and from the circumstance that in the time of Josephus the valley between Mounts Zion and Moriah was called the Tyropoeon or the "valley of the cheesemakers."