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Webster 1913 Edition

Emporium

Em-po′ri-um

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Emporiums
(#)
, L.
Emporia
(#)
.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] belonging to commerce, fr. [GREEK] traveler, trader; [GREEK] in + [GREEK] 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 1828 Edition

Emporium

EMPO'RIUM

,
Noun.
[L. from the Gr. to buy; to pass or go.]
1.
A place of merchandize; a town or city of trade; particularly, a city or town of extensive commerce, or in which the commerce of an extensive country centers, or to which sellers and buyers resort from different countries. Such are London, Amsterdam and Hamburg. New York will be an emporium.
2.
in medicine, the common sensory in the brain.

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