emporium Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain
    department store.

WordNet


Em*po"ri*um noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. , fr. belonging to commerce, fr. traveler, trader; in + way through and over, path. See In, and Empiric, Fare.
Wordforms
plural Emporiums L Emporia
Definitions
  1. A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.
    That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill-built market town. Macaulay.
    It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.
  2. (Physiol.) The brain. Obs.

Webster 1913