| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun emporium.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (emporium) | 1. A large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain.[Wordnet]. 2. A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.[Websters]. 3. The brain.[Websters]. | |
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Date "EMPORIUMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
Specialty Definition: emporium
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A place of merchandize; a town or city of trade; particularly, a city or town of extensive commerce, or in which the commerce of an extensive country centers, or to which sellers and buyers resort from different countries. Such are London, Amsterdam and Hamburg. New York will be an emporium.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Antiquities | Emporium (to emporion). A place for wholesale trade in commodities carried by sea. The name is sometimes applied to a seaport town, but it properly signifies only a particular place in such a town. The word is derived from emporos, which signifies in Homer a person who sails as a passenger in a ship belonging to another person (Od. ii. 319 Od., xxiv. 300); but in later writers it denotes the merchant who carries on commerce with foreign countries, and differs from kapêlos, the retail dealer, who purchases his goods from the emporos and retails them in the market-place (Protag. 313 C). The emporium at Athens was under the inspection of certain officers, who were elected annually (epimelêtai tou emporiou). See Epimeletae. (references) | ||
| Library Science | Rivista Mensile d'Arte e di Cultura. Bergamo, Italy. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Emporium is an old-fashioned term for a Department store and for marketplaces or trading centers in ancient cities. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A department store. (references) | 2: [Noun] A market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city. (references) | 3: [Noun] A shop that offers a wide variety of goods, often used facetiously. With a name like "The Wine and Spirits Emporium", no wonder the prices are so high. (references) |
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Common Expressions: emporium
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognition | Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognition is a parody of classification schemes or taxonomy, in the form of an essay by Jorge Luis Borges on a fictitious Chinese encyclopedia. (references) | ||
| Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium | Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, also known as Little Sister's Bookstore, but usually called "Little Sister's," is an independent bookstore in the Davie Village / West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, a predominantly gay community. (references) | ||
| The Food Emporium | Chain of upscale grocery stores originally part of Shopwell Inc. Accquired in 1986 by A&P. Operates over 30 stores in the New York City Metropolitian area, including several stores in Manhattan. (references) | ||
| Wong's Lost and Found Emporium (The Twilight Zone) | Wong's Lost and Found Emporium is a short story by William F. Wu that was later adapted as an episode of the television program The Twilight Zone. (references) | ||
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