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emporium|ɛmˈpɔərɪəm| Pl. 7–9 emporiums, 9 emporia. (See also empory.) [a. L. emporium, a. Gr. ἐµπόριον, f. ἔµπορος merchant, f. ἐν in + vbl. stem πορ-, περ- to journey.] 1. A place in which merchandise is collected or traded in. Often as applied to towns or countries: A principal centre of commerce, ‘a mart’.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinsh. II. 12/2 A Scotch Town is the cheefest emporium in a manner of all that land. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. iii. (1651) 326 Paris, London, small Cottages in Cæsars time, now most nobel Emporiums. 1692Ray Dissol. World ii. v. (1732) 253 The best Emporium and Mart of this Part of the world. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. ii. (1869) II. 27 The emporium, or general market, for the goods of all the different countries whose trade it carries on. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 44 Perhaps they [the Italian cities] would have remained much longer the emporia of the world. 1869Buckle Civilis. III. v. 340 Emporiums of commerce. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 8 Egypt..deigned to open an emporium at Naucratis for the ships and commerce of the Greeks. †b. In the East Indies: A ‘factory’ of European merchants. Obs.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiv. 20 Half a League farther up..the Dutch Emporium stands. c. Pompously applied to: A shop, warehouse.
1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxii, Emporiums of splendid dresses. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 163 But I find the shop now expanded into a magnificent emporium. 2. transf. and fig.
1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxxv. 475 The rich emporium of the Scotch coal measures. 1852Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. xiii. 241 Her house in London was a perfect emporium of escaped state criminals. 1865Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VIII. lxvi. 235 She [Alexandria] was an emporium for the interchange of ideas and speculations. †3. (See quot.) Obs.
1721–1800Bailey, Emporium, the common sensory of the brain. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. |