Emporium

Quick meaning: Emporium is a noun meaning (also figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.

Meaning

(also figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, obsolete) The brain.
2. (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.
3. (historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).

Example Sentences

Venice a poore fiſhertowne, Paris, London, ſmall Cottages, in Cæſars time, now moſt noble Emporiums.

Excester, or EXETER, is a famous and ancient City, the metropolis and emporium of the Weſt of England.

And, while this fam'd Emporium we prepare, / The Britiſh Ocean ſhall ſuch triumphs boaſt, / That thoſe who now diſdain our Trade to ſhare, / Shall rob like Pyrats on our wealthy Coaſt.

His Lordship, in the intoxication of his triumph at the supposed annihilation of the Tory party, described the defeated party as mere sycophants, and Edinburgh itself, prior to the commencement of the Whig Millen[n]ium, as one vast emporium of corruption.

Word Forms

• emporiums
• emporia

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mart, boutique, store, shop, marketplace, entrepot.

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