emporium

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noun

Plural noun:

emporiumsemporia

1.
(also, figuratively)(also figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
2.
(also, figuratively)(also figuratively) A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.
With a name like “The Wine and Spirits Emporium”, no wonder the prices are so high.
3.
(historical)A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
4.
(broadly, obsolete)(by extension, obsolete) The brain.

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emporeticemporetic obsolete

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ine-pro Borrowed from Latin emporium (trading station; business district in a city; market town), from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (factory, trading station; market), from ἔμπορος (merchant, trader; traveller) + -ιον. ἔμπορος is derived from ἐμ- (variant of ἐν-) + πόρος (journey; passageway) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (to go through; to carry forth)), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ (at sea;