Definition of "market square" [market square]

• An open area in a town housing a public market, often on just one day per week; a marketplace. (noun)

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• "The Guildhall looked the part, the market square before it filled with a bustling, good-natured throng, the gentry rubbing shoulders with farmers and their wives, laborers and field workers, all eyeing the wide variety of wares displayed on the stalls and trestles."
• "On a certain day he stood in the market square to see their first stage-coach put together."
• "“We can hang him in the main market square of Bolgorka."