What is "emporia"

Emporium \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.]

n. (en-irregular plural of: emporium)

See emporium

1. n. a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain [syn: department store]

2. [also: emporia (pl)]

Emporia (other plural forms emporiums, used more commonly than emporia, especially in the United States; and emporiae, favored mostly by academics and literary critics) is a word of dubious origin (often thought incorrectly to be one of many different plural forms of emporium or its Greek original, emporion,) and can also refer to:

Emporia is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Ragonot in 1887, and is known from South Africa.

Emporia is a shopping mall and one of the biggest ones in Scandinavia. It is situated in the city of Malmö in Sweden, near Malmö Arena and Hyllie railway station. Emporia opened on 25 October 2012 and the total construction expense was about 2 billion Swedish kronor. The architect of the Emporia project is Gert Wingårdh of Wingårdh arkitektkontor. Steen & Strøm owns the building.

The building has been decorated with sound design and soundscapes created by Radja Sound Design Agency.