Emporium /(?)/

Em·po·ri·um

Emporium

n.

pl. Emporiums, Emporia

  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.
    It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers.
    — Knox.
  2. The brain. (Physiol.) [Obs.]