emporium
a large retail store, especially one selling a great variety of articles.
a place, town, or city of important commerce, especially a principal center of trade: New York is one of the world's great emporiums.
Origin of emporium
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How to use emporium in a sentence
While in the square, check out the Bent Spoon, which is one of the best ice cream emporiums in town.
Railroads are reckless Radicals and are destined by turns to make and to mar the fortunes of many great emporiums.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyIf the reader doubts, let him consider its practical results in any great emporiums of "best society."
About these vast emporiums ladies of all ages flit all day like bees around a hive.
Highways and Byways in London | Mrs. E. T. Cook.Abundant opportunity is afforded those who have occasion to visit emporiums of art and fashion on shopping designs intent.
Saratoga and How to See It | R. F. Dearborn
The tobacco is exported to Amsterdam, which is one of the greatest emporiums in the world for this article.
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water | Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent
British Dictionary definitions for emporium
/ (ɛmˈpɔːrɪəm) /
a large and often ostentatious retail shop offering for sale a wide variety of merchandise
Origin of emporium
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