as in store
an establishment where goods are sold to consumers
an emporium for home electronic equipment filled with stuff I didn't know I needed but now desperately want
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Recent Examples of emporium
The store at 1 Wall Street, about a five-minute walk from The New York Stock Exchange, is in a part of Manhattan that has recently had a poor track record with luxury retail emporiums.
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Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
This wonderful stationery store started in a small space in East London’s Colombia Road and has since expanded into a Covent Garden emporium of all things paper (and pens and pencils and other accessories).
—Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The Kleenex Winnipeg’s most colorful interior is the Kleenex emporium, where dozens of boxes of Kleenex in a distinctive gold-and-blue dot pattern line the walls.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
The 75,000-square-foot emporium, converted from a former JC Penney, is a wormhole to the food court of any baekhwajeom (department store galleria) in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
This wonderful stationery store started in a small space in East London’s Colombia Road and has since expanded into a Covent Garden emporium of all things paper (and pens and pencils and other accessories).
—Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The Kleenex Winnipeg’s most colorful interior is the Kleenex emporium, where dozens of boxes of Kleenex in a distinctive gold-and-blue dot pattern line the walls.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
The 75,000-square-foot emporium, converted from a former JC Penney, is a wormhole to the food court of any baekhwajeom (department store galleria) in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emporium
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Thousands of Memorial Day deals have been dropping all weekend, with Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Wayfair just a few of the stores offering impressive discounts.—
Averi Baudler,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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But eventually stores won’t be able to get new rolls of pennies from their banks and will start rounding transactions up or down to the nearest nickel.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
25 May 2025
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There are four new shops for guests to explore after a day of dragon training — Viking Traders, How to Treat Your Dragon, Hiccup’s Workshop and Toothless’ Treasures.—
Samantha Neely,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Emily Anne Fernandez, 29, a manager at the Arts District’s Concierge Coffee who buys Couplet’s matcha wholesale for her shop, spent her free time in Couplet’s patio producing music on her laptop.—
Jean Trinh,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Streaming pre-orders came in at $11.1 billion, up 35% compared to the 2023-24 bazaar.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
11 May 2025
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Every digital scrap is sucked into a huge data vacuum: a user’s location information, WiFi networks, SIM card, and other device identifiers are routinely collected by apps and browsers and fed into a vast data bazaar.—
Ronald J. Deibert,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Emporium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emporium. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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