Hypertext Webster Gateway: "marketplace"
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."
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
marketplace
n 1: 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"
[syn: {market}]
2: an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is
set up [syn: {mart}]
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