Definition of Merchants

1. Noun. (plural of merchant) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Merchants

1. merchant [v] - See also: merchant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merchants

merchant ships
merchant vessels
merchantability
merchantable
merchanted
merchantess
merchantesses
merchantile
merchanting
merchantlike
merchantly
merchantman
merchantmen
merchantries
merchantry
merchants (current term)
merchantwoman
merchantwomen
merchaundise
merchaundize
merchaunt
merches
merchet
merchets
merchildren
merciable
mercie
mercies
mercified

Literary usage of Merchants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... it was not a place for merchants, except that at fome certain times they had a kind of a fair there, when the merchants from "Japan came over thither to ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1892)
"124-5 ; al l merchants' booths to be closed for fifteen days, ... 145, and see under Flanders ; anent merchants sailing with goods to France and Flanders, ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"Therefore, as against the mortgage creditors, the merchants' Bank, notwithstanding its Judgment, can claim no right beyond a pro rata distribution of the ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1911)
"The writer is not a believer in the scheme of the Boston merchants for relieving the financial situation by the emission of their notes. ..."

5. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"But it seems to have been rather a special law for mercantile transactions than a special law for merchants. It would we think have been found chiefly to ..."

6. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"In July, The merchants the New York merchants broke the non- of New ... At the Boston town meeting the letter of the New York merchants was torn in pieces. ..."

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