bazaar
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noun
1.
a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East.
2.
a sale of miscellaneous contributed articles to benefit some charity, cause, organization, etc.
3.
a store in which many kinds of goods are offered for sale; department store.
Also, ba·zar.
Origin:
1590–1600; earlier bazarro < Italian ≪ Persian bāzār market
1590–1600; earlier bazarro < Italian ≪ Persian bāzār market
Synonyms
1. market, mart, exchange.
1. market, mart, exchange.
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bazaar or bazar (bəˈzɑː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (esp in the Orient) a market area, esp a street of small stalls |
| 2. | a sale in aid of charity, esp of miscellaneous secondhand or handmade articles |
| 3. | a shop where a large variety of goods is sold |
| [C16: from Persian bāzār, from Old Persian abēcharish] | |
| bazar or bazar | |
| —n | |
| [C16: from Persian bāzār, from Old Persian abēcharish] | |
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Bazaar
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Word Origin & History
bazaar
1580s, from It. bazarra, from Pers. bazar (Pahlavi vacar) "a market."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
bazaar
n.,adj. In 1997, after meditatating on the success of Linux for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/). The main argument of the paper was that Brooks's Law is not the whole story; given the right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also cathedral), and the style of development typical in the Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its characteristics include releasing code early and often, and actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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bazaar
originally, a public market district of a Persian town. From Persia the term spread to Arabia (the Arabic word suq is synonymous), Turkey, and North Africa. In India it came to be applied to a single shop, and in current English usage it is applied both to a single shop or concession selling miscellaneous articles and to a fair at which such miscellany is sold, sometimes for charity
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Example sentences
She remembered his parting words at the bazaar.
Residents find the artful recreation of a traditional bazaar in the town centre cosier than the sprawling malls on its edges.
Add points if you can drive to this bazaar, versus flying.
They decided on an annual barbecue and bazaar to raise the money.
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