market day en · NOUN
Meanings
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see market, day.
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The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location.
Part of this section runs beneath the Glasgow Cattle Market, and lairage for livestock traffic is provided beside Bellgrove Station; trains are received from all over Scotland on market days.
1960 January 14, G. H. Robin, “The City of Glasgow Union Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 60:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| market days | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (15)
la nūndina (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · hu vásárnap (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · fi toripäivä (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · pl dzień targowy (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · cmn 集日 (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · rsk пияц (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · hu piacnap (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · sv torgdag (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · de Markttag (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · gd latha-fèille (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · mk па́зар (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · pl dzień handlowy (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · ga lá margaidh (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · gd latha-margaidh (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location) · nl marktdag (the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location)