emporium
- noun
- /ɪmˈpɔːriəm/
- Detroit's number one used car emporium, Martindale Motors, is here for you.
So I went out there and had a a holiday and then one of the guys said, oh, this is the guy who runs the emporium, right?
- So I went out there and had a a holiday and then one of the guys said, oh, this is the guy who runs the emporium, right?
- For some weird reason, even though we were there with a jewelry brand, we all went as part of the itinerary to this like Thai jewel Emporium.
- I want to thank Oasis, Good Time Emporium.
Examples
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It's like an electronics emporium.
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This is the Christmas tree emporium of the entire Midwest.
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You can also check out our online emporium where we carry all of our latest products.
Blog text (22) -
Mr. Summers runs the Emporium, the biggest store in town.
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Another student reported, "That Math Emporium helped me a lot."
Academic text (2004) -
www.calabashmusic.com: An online world music emporium, this site partnered with National Geographic in 2006.
Academic text (2009) -
Participants felt that the Math Emporium staff facilitated learning by answering software questions and explaining difficult math assignments.
Academic text (2004) -
The Math Emporium is an off-campus math study center that offers computer-instructed math classes.
Academic text (2004) -
I manage a fern bar on Independence Boulevard near downtown called P.J. O'Mulligan's Goodtimes Emporium.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mr. Summers runs the emporium, the biggest store in town.
Synonyms
A shop where people buy goods like food or clothes
A large shop that sells many kinds of goods in separate sections like clothing and furniture
A very large shop that sells food, clothes, and things for the home
A very large store that sells many things like food and clothes, often outside town
A shop or store that sells things to people
A shop that sells goods to people
How Big
- US
Surface Forms
Etymology
Emporium comes from the old Greek word emporion, meaning 'trading place', and from emporos, meaning 'merchant' or 'traveller' who brings goods. So an emporium is a large shop or market where many different goods are sold.