emporium

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There was Good Times Emporium which was like a cheaper/crappier version of Dave & Busters.

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Quick take

A borough, the county seat of Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A borough, the county seat of Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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.

noun

(historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for emporium.

noun

A borough, the county seat of Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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.

noun

(historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).

noun

(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.

Example sentences

There was Good Times Emporium which was like a cheaper/crappier version of Dave & Busters.

We are carefully building this image emporium around our story, that it is almost surreal.

As an emporium of everything, Amazon already has a distinct advantage.

My favorite is the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge.

On the upper east side, where I live, the options are pretty much Gristedes, Morton Williams, Food Emporium and Fairway.

> > From Graham Webb Intl v Emporium Drug Mart, 916 F.

Some of its predictions are wide of the mark, but what I found particularly accurate, though his description was of an essentially socialist emporium, was his description of shopping.

So your phone vibrates to get your attention, then tells you that it's about to rain and that it's also a while since you had coffee, encouraging you to go to your favorite coffee emporium.

But my main point is this - why do I need an account and password for uncle bob's glass cutting tool emporium, when I am only likely to make a single order in my lifetime?

Quote examples

My first thought was: will this work with Borges' "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge" taxonomy?

"Crunk and Grog's Magical Wheel Emporium"

"Doing a startup" is a middling to bad idea (particularly if you mean "working for below-market wages & illiquid impossible-to-value options at a hip VC funded consumer web foosball emporium", as opposed to actually founding).

Ark > 1995): > > "The Court likewise rejects Graham Webb's argument that the warnings Drug > Emporium has posted disclaiming any affiliation with or authorization by > Graham Webb are ineffective and not a question properly resolved by > summary judgment.

Proper noun examples

Mentions Lenovo, UK based, but does not feature the Linux Emporium, strange.

I think it's more of the following: NewEgg selling customer data to Amazon, AND EBay, AND LinkedIn, AND Joe Schmoe's Tech Emporium.

What if one day, Mozilla decides that in order to pay the bills, it needs to negotiate a deal, whereby all those users with automatic updating enabled should get railroaded with some kind of optional-but-defaulted-to-enabled third party feature suggesting helpful reminders to buy more burritos from Jimbo's Refried Beans Emporium.