noun
emporium
em-POR-ee-um/emˈpɔːriəm/
A large store or marketplace selling a wide variety of goods.
The downtown emporium sells everything from kitchen tools to winter coats.
Etymology
The image of being on a voyage underlies a Greek word for a traveler, then a merchant. The merchant’s trading place became a grand name for a large shop.
In context
queer looking place that I something between a miracle Shrine hung with votive offerings from sufferers who have been cured of sore heads and arms and legs and a meat Emporium in a cannibal District
More examples
- We browse three floors of furniture, clothing, and gifts at the emporium.
- The old warehouse now houses an emporium packed with household goods.
- These emporiums carry far more than the neighborhood shops.
Forms
emporium · emporiums · emporia