Em*po"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Emporiums (#), L. Emporia (#). [L., fr. Gr. , fr. belonging to commerce, fr. traveler, trader; in + way through and over, path. See In, and Empiric, Fare.]

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.

Log in or register to write something here or to contact authors.