emporium

noun em·po·ri·um \ im-ˈpȯr-ē-əm , em- \

Updated on: 3 Apr 2018

Definition of emporium

plural emporiums also emporia play \im-ˈpȯr-ē-ə, em-\

1 a : a place of trade; especially : a commercial center

b : a retail outlet

a hardware emporium

a pizza emporium

2 : a store carrying many different kinds of merchandise

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Examples of emporium in a Sentence

an emporium for home electronic equipment filled with stuff I didn't know I needed but now desperately want

Recent Examples of emporium from the Web

The initiatives quickly spread to Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, Saks & Company, Bloomingdale’s, B. Altman & Co., Jordan Marsh and other shopping emporiums whose names have passed into mercantile heaven.

— ralph blumenthal and sandra roff, New York Times, "Attention 1916 Shoppers: The Doctor Is In," 4 Mar. 2018
His name is Seth Maness, a musician and long-time booking agent who for the last several years has managed the Soul Kitchen music emporium on Dauphin Street.

— michael dumas, AL.com, "With SethFest, downtown community rallies around one of its own battling rare cancer," 29 July 2017
Heugel opened the bar in 2009 along with then-partner Kevin Floyd, who went on to launch the craft beer emporium Hay Merchant.

— alison cook, Houston Chronicle, "Houston chefs shut out in James Beard awards," 14 Mar. 2018
The mall’s appearance on the USTR’s list of notorious emporiums may be having more effect.

— The Economist, "Canada coddles counterfeiters," 24 Feb. 2018
Inside the main building is a 12,000-square-foot emporium complete with a taxidermied lion and giraffe as well as a Montana schoolhouse from the 1800s.

— Los Angeles Magazine, "3 L.A. Boutiques So Exclusive They’re Practically Invisible," 22 Feb. 2018
Fieg’s story, told over and again on sneaker blogs, in Kith marketing material, and on this very website, is familiar to the point of being dog-eared: Queens kid catches a job in the stockroom of David Z, a Manhattan shoe emporium.

— sam schube, GQ, "Kith's Ronnie Fieg Goes West," 16 Feb. 2018
YouTube can boast that 58 percent of U.S. adults watch its clips, but only 18 percent rely on the video emporium for news.

— kathleen parker | opinion, Anchorage Daily News, "Invasion of the Russian election bots," 15 Feb. 2018
Many have compared China Live to a Chinese version of Eataly — the Italian food emporium started by Mario Batali and Lidia Bastianich — which now has multiple New York locations, as well as outposts in Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles.

— NBC News, "In San Francisco's Chinatown, a food hall wants to showcase the best of China," 5 Feb. 2018

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