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mart | emporium |

As a proper noun mart

is march (third month of the gregorian calendar) or mart can be mar (march).

As a noun emporium is

a market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city.

mart

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from (etyl) mercatus; see market.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A market.
  • * (William Cowper)
    • Where has commerce such a mart as London?
  • (obsolete) A bargain.
  • * 1616 ,
    • Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.
  • (obsolete) To traffic.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) Mars (stem Mart- ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mart — The god .
  • (obsolete) Battle; contest.

    • Anagrams

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    emporium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city.
  • * 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 28:
    • Only where churchmen congregated or rulers established their emporia —licensed depots for the long-distance trade in luxuries—did any vestiges of urban life survive.
  • A shop that offers a wide variety of goods, often used facetiously.
    • With a name like "The Wine and Spirits Emporium ", no wonder the prices are so high.
  • A department store.
  • (obsolete) The brain.

    • Anagrams

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