department store

1. 1.

   a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain

   Synonymsemporium

   Broadermercantile establishment

   Part ofretail chain

Questions about department store

What does department store mean?

department store means "a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain".

What is another word for department store?

Close synonyms include emporium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.