Definitions
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- noun A place where goods are stored or deposited and from which they are distributed.
- noun A trading or market center.
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- noun A
warehouse ,depot . - noun A commercial center, a place where
merchandise is sent for additionalprocessing anddistribution . - noun A
point ofentry for people, especiallyimmigrants , into a city or country.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from entreposer, to store : entre, in, among (from Latin inter-; see inter–) + poser, to place (from Old French; see pose).]
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French entreposer ("to store")
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billifer commented on the word entrepôt
See also entrepot.
January 5, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word entrepôt
Usage on flassadas.
September 22, 2008
amorfati commented on the word entrepôt
en·tre·pôt (ntr-p)
n.
1. A place where goods are stored or deposited and from which they are distributed.
2. A trading or market center.
May 21, 2009
MaryW commented on the word entrepôt
Andrew Pettegree, "The Renaissance Library and the Challenge of Print," in Alice Crawford ed., The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015), p. 86
December 26, 2015
MaryW commented on the word entrepôt
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2012)
December 26, 2015