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emporium
[ em-pawr-ee-uhm, -pohr- ]
noun
- a large retail store, especially one selling a great variety of articles.
Synonyms: bazaar, marketplace, market
- a place, town, or city of important commerce, especially a principal center of trade:
New York is one of the world's great emporiums.
emporium
/ ɛmˈpɔːrɪəm /
noun
- a large and often ostentatious retail shop offering for sale a wide variety of merchandise
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Word History and Origins
Origin of emporium1
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Example Sentences
He turns a visit to a prefab home emporium into a meditation on wealth as a path to spiritual legitimacy.
And then came the day when they walked into the London workshop of a musical instrument emporium.
The around-the-corner Emporium Pies supplies a variety of irresistible desserts.
The firehouse is near the Food Emporium market where Tommy worked as the meat manager before he was called to the FDNY.
It seems like Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is a film which will live in infamy for quite some time.
Mr. McSweeney had the bad taste to try to stick up our local drug emporium about half an hour ago.
Shanghai is rapidly becoming the great commercial emporium of China.
Before the bewildered orphan knew where he was, he found himself in the interior of Ibrahim's emporium.
It was a most primitive emporium of a most primitive frontier.
Solano, by the way, is the commercial emporium of this end of the province, for there is not a single shop in Bayombong.
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