emporium
IPA: ɛmpˈɔriʌm
noun
- (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.
- (historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
- (by extension, obsolete) The brain.
- A borough, the county seat of Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Examples of "emporium" in Sentences
- It was anchored by The Emporium and I. Magnin.
- The unpaved alleyways were emporiums for rats.
- The food emporium on the sixth floor is extraordinary.
- Oyo became the southern emporium of the Trans Saharan trade.
- It is also linked by skybridge to The Emporium Department Store.
- He then moved to Boston, teaching at the Music Emporium in Cambridge.
- Originally, the name trocadero refers to an emporium or place of trade.
- The major tenant, the Emporium department store, opened on July 16, 1952.
- It was demolished in the 1920s to make way for Nobman's Hardware Emporium.
- The Food Emporium is a chain of grocery stores originally part of Shopwell Inc.
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