department store

retail establishment; building which offers a wide range of consumer goods
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department store

Summary

department store ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (72 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • department store is a type of shop[2].
  • department store is a type of commercial building[3].
  • department store is used for third place[4].
  • department store is used for tourist attraction[5].
  • department store's Commons category is recorded as Department stores[6].
  • department store's industry is recorded as product distribution[7].
  • department store's said to be the same as is recorded as Warenhaus[8].
  • department store's Unicode character is recorded as 🏬[9].
  • 1796 marks the founding of department store[10].
  • 1750 marks the founding of department store[11].
  • department store's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Department stores[12].
  • department store's Commons gallery is recorded as Department store[13].
  • department store's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as shop=department_store[14].
  • department store's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15].
  • department store's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[16].
  • department store's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • department store's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/DepartmentStore[18].
  • department store's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C204067[19].
  • department store's Merchant Category Code is recorded as 5311[20].
  • department store's P14692 is recorded as 1608[21].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include shop[2] and commercial building[3].

Origins

Recorded inception include 1796[10] and 1750[11].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include third place[4] and tourist attraction[5].

Why It Matters

department store ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (72 views/month).[1] It 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]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C204067
    Umls cui → C0562707
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1748]]: C204067"
  2. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → 1608
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 15w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Timo Rüggeberg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8168]]: Q1785852, adds FactGrid ID"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0306821-obchodni-domy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0306821-obchodni-domy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → third place, tourist attraction
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 15965, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  6. 20w ago · Jerimee · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1796-00-00T00:00:00Z, +1750-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Has use → third place, tourist attraction
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P366]]: [[Q3540209]]"
  7. 21w ago · Jerimee · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/department-store, money/department-store
    Industry → product distribution
    Inception → +1796-00-00T00:00:00Z, +1750-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P571]]: 1796"
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