cheapstead

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noun

A marketplace.

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Meanings

nouncheapstead (plural cheapsteads)

plural cheapsteads

  1. historicalrareA marketplace.

    Sleet showers continued until we reached the cheapstead of Akureyri (Acre Beach), at the south end of the fjord.

    1900, Manchester Geographical Society, The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society
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    […] three weeks of winter were employed in butchering, and more than an acre of field surrounding the cheapstead at Housewick was covered with knots of men and women decapitating and flaying their flocks.

    1879, Charles George Warnford Lock, Clement le Neve Foster, The home of the Eddas

Origin

From cheap (“purchase, business, market”) + stead (“place”), probably a translation of Old Norse kaupstaðr (“marketplace”). Compare Icelandic kaupstaður (“market town”), Swedish köpstad (“market town”), Old English ċēapstōw (“marketplace”).

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APA

cheapstead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheapstead

MLA

“cheapstead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheapstead. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cheapstead,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheapstead.

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