bazaar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a marketplace or shopping district consisting of many small shops or stalls, especially in the Middle East or South Asia

   Spice merchants filled the covered bazaar with bright sacks and fragrant displays.

2. 2
   noun

   a sale of donated goods held to raise money for an organization

   The school bazaar raised enough money to repair the playground.

3. 3
   noun

   a place or situation offering a striking variety of things

   The festival became a bazaar of food, music, and political debate.

Through French bazar or Italian bazar from Ottoman Turkish bazar, ultimately from Persian bazar ("marketplace").

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