marketplaces
- 1Plural of marketplace.
Open-air marketplaces filled the old city squares every weekend.
Several digital marketplaces compete fiercely for the same shoppers.
Note
A regular plural: the -s goes on the end of the whole compound, never on market inside it. Plurals most naturally count places one can point to, such as squares given over to stalls or online platforms competing for shoppers. The wider senses, commerce in general or a sphere where ideas and fashions change hands, can be counted too, so that rival marketplaces of ideas may stand side by side.
marketplaces is a form of marketplace
marketplace, noun: The setting, whether physical or abstract, within which buyers and sellers carry out trade. Full entry
- Forms
- marketplacemarketplaces plural
- Spelling
- marketplace → marketplaces: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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