department store
retail establishment; building which offers a wide range of consumer goods
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Summary
department store ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,252 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: shop[2], commercial building[3]
- Has use: third place[4], tourist attraction[5]
- Commons category: Department stores[6]
- Industry: product distribution[7]
- Said to be the same as: Warenhaus[8]
- Unicode character: 🏬[9]
- Inception: 1796[10], 1750[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Department stores[12]
- Commons gallery: Department store[13]
- OpenStreetMap tag: shop=department_store[14]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15], Dresdner Hefte[16], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17]
- Equivalent class: https://schema.org/DepartmentStore[18]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C204067[19]
- Merchant Category Code: 5311[20]
- P14692: 1608[21]
Why It Matters
department store has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]