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