stallholder
noun
stallholder is a noun meaning “A person who operates a market stall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-A-L-L-H-O-L-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stallholder is stallholders.
What does stallholder mean?
noun
- 1
A person who operates a market stall.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stallholder
- stallholders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stallholder?
Stallholder appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Stallholder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who operates a market stall:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Standbetreiber, Marktstandbetreiber |
| Spanish | puestero |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does stallholder come from?
From stall + holder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).