different between marketplace vs chowk

English

Alternative forms

• market place

Etymology

market +? place

Noun

marketplace (plural marketplaces)

1. An open area in a town housing a public market.
2. The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.

   Some high-street retailers were slow to enter the new digital marketplace of the Internet.

3. (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.
4. (figuratively) A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.
   • 2000, Jason A. Frank, John Tambornino, Vocations of Political Theory (page 239)

     While political theory frequently appears condemned to nostalgic reflection, cultural studies often dulls its critical edge in the never-ending stampede to document the newest styles and counterstyles of the cultural marketplace.

Related terms

• market square

Translations

English

Etymology

From Hindi ??? (cauk, “plaza, square, courtyard”), from Sanskrit ?????? (catu?ka, “quadrangular courtyard, crossway”).

Noun

chowk (plural chowks)

1. (India) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
2. (India) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
   • 2015, Ranjita Biswas, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial 2015, p. 61:

     The all-important Jilmil bus was about to arrive at the chowk.

3. (India) A courtyard.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??uk/

Verb

chowk (third-person singular present chowks, present participle chowkin, past chowkeet, past participle chowkeet)

1. (South Scots) to choke

   Deh chowk on eet!