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Emporia

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

📖 Definitions of "Emporia"

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 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.

    "With a name like “The Wine and Spirits Emporium”, no wonder the prices are so high."

  3. 3

    A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).

  4. 4

    (by extension) The brain.

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