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English

emporiums

noun

Meaning

  1. A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
  2. 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. A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
  4. (by extension) The brain.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data