market town

noun

: a usually small town that has the privilege of holding a public market at stated times

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Little Ivy made the track her own when Rachael and Ady Hampshire took their two children out for a walk around Hebden Bridge—a market town in the north of England, where the couple had their first date. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025 Jill took videos of the market towns the van drove through, crowded with vendors. —

Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024 Patole heads to a market town to buy leafy greens, then trudges down a muddy road lined with butcher shops, each a hole-in-the-wall, run by Muslim men – the Indian minority dominates the butchery trade. —

Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024 The picturesque market town is the backdrop for the four-day celebration of the best writing and books, intended for bookworms of all ages. —

Tess Foley-Cox, theweek, 28 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for market town