Definition of "market town" []

• A town that has a traditional right to hold a regular market (noun)

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• "By midday, we had passed through the hills at the southern end of the Malverns and reached a market town called Ledbury, where we paused at an inn for a brief meal."
• "A little further along the quiet roadside on my route to our market town of Diss is a trio of such magnificence they are almost a shrine to me."
• "A handsome young man in dirty white running-vest and shorts paused for a moment at the crossroads of a little market town in the south-west of England and then trotted on past the obelisk which commemorated the end of the Boer War."