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emporium
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "place of trade, mart," from Latin emporium , from Greek emporion "trading place, market," from emporos "merchant," originally "traveler," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + poros "passage, voyage," related to peirein "to pass through" ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Emporium , more formally known as Troutman's Emporium , was a chain of department stores founded in 1955 by Dallas Troutman in North Bend, Oregon . After 1977, Emporium's headquarters was located in Eugene, Oregon . At its peak, Emporium operated at least ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A mere 99p from your local tack emporium Dolcis is launching a club tour. ▪ He made a number of further purchases at a confectioner's, a hardware shop and a luggage emporium . ▪ Mathie was looking for work after he decided to ...
Usage examples of emporium.
Albuquerque, failing to storm Calicut, seized Goa farther north and made it the chief emporium.
It would be chock full of boats and ferries, bound for the markets and the great Emporium.
Nedra and their child ascended once more to the surface above Emporia and went across the multihued coiling of the photosynthetrons and again upon that long march into the upland valleys.
Neither Harry nor Ron bought any ingredients at the Apothecary, seeing that they were no longer studying Potions, but both bought large boxes of owl nuts for Hedwig and Pigwidgeon at Eeylops Owl Emporium.
Harry nor Ron bought any ingredients at the Apothecary, seeing that they were no longer studying Potions, but both bought large boxes of owl nuts for Hedwig and Pigwidgeon at Eeylops Owl Emporium.
Topping, business partner of Leo Felix, the Rastafarian automotive dealer who ran Jah Cars, the previously-owned-car emporium down beside the canal.
Cheap striplights, huge floor space, a jumble of racks, plain-looking signs advertising jeans, army-navy clothes, and club gear: nothing like the upscale emporiums Tammy said he usually patronized or consulted for.
The gallery here was in good hands with Gardner, and the emporium in New York did not have a capable manager he could trust: good business sense suggested that Brady keep his eye on the store in New York.
Broward County has impulsively offered to build a basketball-hockey emporium to keep both the restless Miami Heat and the money-losing Florida Panthers in South Florida.
The film company then borrowed back its own money, bought a replacement item, leased it to the Emporium which then rehired it to the film company.
He stepped out of a small building called the Bottlefly Emporium, leaving the bat-wing doors swinging behind him.
He hoped, therefore, gradually to make Astoria the great emporium of the American fur trade in the Pacific, and the nucleus of a powerful American state.
Such is the present state of the fur trade, by which it will appear that the extended sway of the Hudson's Bay Company, and the monopoly of the region of which Astoria was the key, has operated to turn the main current of this opulent trade into the coffers of Great Britain , and to render London the emporium instead of New York, as Mr.
The Mammon Emporium offers brand-name concessions and fast-food chains from alternative universes and divergent timetracks.
Actually, though, the real reason Cassandra was blowing the whistle on Padre Pederastia's bomb emporium was to annoy Simon Moon, whom she had been trying to get into her bed ever since she met him at the Friendly Stranger Coffee House six months before.