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# bazaar

«bazaar» in Mova's school dictionary: **A market, especially in the Middle East or South Asia…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bazaar, bazaars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A market, especially in the Middle East or South Asia, with many small shops and stalls in a street or covered area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#m1)

2) A sale held to raise money for a school, church or charity, also called a fete or fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons it describes busy markets in places such as Istanbul, Cairo or Delhi. In school and church life, a bazaar or Christmas bazaar is a fundraising sale with cakes, toys and crafts. Phrases: "Christmas bazaar", "the Grand Bazaar", "a church bazaar".

### examples

- The bazaar was full of spices, carpets and lamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#x1)
- The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has thousands of shops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#x2)
- Our school holds a Christmas bazaar every December. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#x3)
- Mum baked cupcakes for the church bazaar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#x4)
- We bargained for a bag at the bazaar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#x5)
- The bazaar raised enough money for new library books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#x6)
- There all the people were in the bazaars, buying and selling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/#x7)

### note

Spelled with double z and double a: b-a-z-a-a-r. Do not confuse with "bizarre" (very strange), which sounds similar. Countable: a bazaar, bazaars.

### In the corpora

- [The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul was started in the 1450s and is one of the oldest and biggest covered markets in the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bazaar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bazaar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.