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pantechnica

pantechnica is the plural of pantechnicon.

Meaning of pantechnicon

Noun

pantechnicon (plural pantechnicons or pantechnica)

  1. (UK) A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
    • It is plain, that such writers do not rise to the very idea of a University. They consider it a sort of bazaar, or pantechnicon, in which wares of all kinds are heaped together for sale in stalls independent of each other; and that, to save the purchasers the trouble of running about from shop to...1852, John Henry Newman, “Discourse V. General Knowledge Viewed as One Philosophy.”, in Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin, Dublin: James...
  2. (UK) Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
    • For we do not employ battleships as convoys, nor even as pantechnica conveying landing parties.1899 October 28, The Outlook: A Weekly Review of Politics, Art, Literature and Finance, page 400

Questions about pantechnica

What is pantechnica the plural of?
Pantechnica is the plural of pantechnicon.

Words near pantechnica in the dictionary

  1. pantcuff
  2. pantcuffs
  3. pantdress
  4. pantdresses
  5. pantech
  6. pantechnica
  7. pantechnicon
  8. pantechnicons
  9. pantechs
  10. panted
  11. Panteg

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