bazaar
Other forms: bazaars
A bazaar is a market that has rows and rows of little shops selling miscellaneous stuff — like tube socks, velvet paintings, and corn on the cob.
Bazaar is originally a Persian word, and means "marketplace" all over the Middle East. The word was picked up by the Italians, and spread through Europe and into English. At a bazaar in Istanbul, you'd find food, electronics, clothes — useful stuff. In English, we tend to use bazaar for something closer to a flea market. Although they sound alike, bazaar has no relation to bizarre (the super weird).
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a street of small shops, especially in the Middle Eastsynonyms: bazartype of:market, market place, marketplace, martan area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
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a shop where a variety of goods are sold
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a sale of miscellany; often for charity“the church bazaar”synonyms: fairtypes:book fair, bookfairbazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy causecraft faira fair at which objects made by craftsmen are offered for saletype of:
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bazaar / bizarre
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