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emporium

em·por·i·um

emporium · emporiums · emporia

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Emporium, Emporion

A city or region which is a major trading centreA city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.

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UK/ɛmˈpɔːɹ.i.əm/US/ɛmˈpoɹ.i.əm/

» I work at the Boston Wine Emporium.

Meaning

4 senses

(also, figuratively)A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
(also, figuratively)A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.
With a name like “The Wine and Spirits Emporium”, no wonder the prices are so high.
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(historical)A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
(broadly, obsolete)The brain.

More definitions

a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain

Examples

3 sentences

I work at the Boston Wine Emporium.
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New York City is America's principal emporium.
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Tom is the owner of Jackson's Sports Emporium in Boston.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”)

Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”), from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “factory, trading station; market”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant, trader; traveller”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). ἔμπορος is derived from ἐμ- (em-) (variant of ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + πόρος (póros, “journey; passageway”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth”)), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ (en pórōi, “at sea; en route”).

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