market day
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- noun
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día de mercado
- People were excited to visit the town square because it's market day today.
- town market day
Examples
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We went to St. Remy on market day, which was pretty horrendous as it was just so crowded and busy.
Blog text (8) -
The town comes alive with music and laughter every market day, attracting many visitors.
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It's market day today in town, if you want to go.
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We seemed to have arrived on their market day.
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This is shaping up to be one of the worst market days in American history.
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On market days, half again, or even twice as many thronged the streets.
Fiction book (1999) -
He was rather surprised to discover that it was market day in the village.
Fiction book (1993) -
Today is market day.
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Once a month on market day, an ice man came with a sweet cart from Bantry, selling bricks of ice cream wrapped in newspaper.
Fiction book (2000) -
Today is market day, and the square is filled with vendors selling fresh produce.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a regular day when a market is held' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'market' (a place/event for buying goods) with 'day' (a specific calendar day). This noun+noun pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. 'día de mercado', 'jour de marché') and follows a straightforward event-denoting composition that a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand.
Etymology
Market day comes from towns that chose one special day for a market, when farmers and sellers brought their goods to the town square and many people came to buy. So, market day means 'the regular day' when the public market is held.