Bazaar

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bazaar \Ba*zaar"\ Bazar \Ba*zar"\(b[.a]*z[aum]r"), n. [Per.
     b[=a]zar market.]
     1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of
        shops where goods are exposed for sale.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods,
        as at a fair.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly
        for a charitable purpose. --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster] BC

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bazaar
       n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: {bazar}]
       2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: {bazar}]
       3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
          [syn: {fair}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "bazaar":
     auto show, boat show, closing-out sale, commercial complex,
     distress sale, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market,
     garage sale, going-out-of-business sale, inventory-clearance sale,
     market, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, plaza,
     rialto, rummage sale, sale, shopping center, shopping mall,
     shopping plaza, show, staple, street market, tax sale, trade fair,
     white elephant sale
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  bazaar n.,adj. In 1997, after meditating on the success of {Linux} for
     three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper
     on hacker culture and development models titled The Cathedral and the
     Bazaar (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/). The main
     argument of the paper was that {Brooks's Law} is not the whole story;
     given the right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently
     parallelized across large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor
     caught on (see also {cathedral}), and the style of development typical
     in the Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its
     characteristics include releasing code early and often, and actively
     seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers. After 1998, the
     evident success of this way of doing things became one of the strongest
     arguments for {open source}.