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cheese market

cheese market

1.5
A market where people sell and buy cheese, often as a traditional local event
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : mercado de queso
  • Every Saturday, the local farmers set up a cheese market where they sell artisanal cheeses from nearby dairies.

Examples

  • Vendors at the cheese market offered samples of local and imported varieties.

  • I love visiting the local cheese market on weekends.

  • The town’s weekly cheese market attracts tourists from around the world.

  • They visited a traditional Dutch cheese market to watch the famous cheese weighing ceremony.

  • The cheese market opens at 8 AM every Saturday.

  • Visitors flock to the cheese market every fall to sample the variety of cheeses made from local ingredients.

  • During my trip to France, I enjoyed exploring the quaint cheese market filled with unique cheeses and friendly vendors.

How Specialized

cheese market
  • US
1.5
market
707 1.0

Surface Forms

cheese market singular
cheese markets plural

Morphology

cheese + market

The meaning 'a market where cheese is sold' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cheese' (the product) with 'market' (a place for selling goods); a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer this. This noun-noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English compounding, so the expression is immediately comprehensible.

Etymology

Cheese market comes from the real markets where farmers brought big wheels of cheese to the town market to sell. In some towns people weighed and carried the heavy wheels in the square, so today 'cheese market' means a market or event for selling cheese.