1. market - Noun
2. market - Verb
3. Market - Proper noun
A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods.
Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind. Basil of Caesarea
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't. Merton Miller
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Warren Buffett
You will sell more sheepskins at the market than wolfskins. Bulgarian Proverb
There goes more than one ass to market. Italian Proverb
He who throws a stone in the market will hit his relative. Yoruba Proverb