0 a small town in the countryside, especially in Europe, that has a regular market and acts as a business centre for surrounding farms and villages:
Numerous farms and entire villages were deserted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and not one single market town was founded between 1350 and 1400.
The development of the urban system was thus largely dependent on the territorial and mercantile rights embedded in the market town charters.
She lived alone in a comfortable bungalow on the outskirts of a thriving market town.
The definition of a market town is not straightforward.
Permission to circumvent the closest market town when importing and exporting certain goods was given in particular to inhabitants of larger islands without market towns.
However, they made practically no difference to the preference for rural versus market town versus urban destination.
It will provide an opportunity for an after-school club in nearly every village and market town.
In addition, the two general practices in the nearby market town are full.
