Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emporium

Emporium , noun

[Latin, from Greek {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} belonging to commerce, from {not transcribed} traveler, trader; {not transcribed} in + {not transcribed} 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.
(Physiology) The brain. [Obsolete]