Sentence examples for emporium from inspiring English sources
emporium
A market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city.
The word "emporium" is correct and usable in written English. It is a noun referring to a large retail store that carries a wide variety of goods, or a large variety of different things. For example, you can say, "The department store was an emporium of clothing, jewelry, and fine wines.".
Mars's emporium of curiosities has been stuffed with intriguing subplots: Evan Peters' murderous quest for equality, his daddy issues, and his love interest, Maggie, and her formaldehyde-reliant plot with Stanley; Del's sham marriage; Elsa's quest for fame, the bubbling tension between her and Kathy Bates's bearded Ethel.
But that's part of the charm of a place that, to me at least, is an emporium every bit as magical as anything in Diagon Alley.
On payment of the small admission fee ($3 for adults in Illinois), visitors are treated to an experience that is part-carnival, part-farm show, part-food emporium, part-town meeting.
And it would be hard to find a store more authentic than Jacksons, a 138-year-old emporium in Reading, west of London.
His textile emporium is an Aladdin's cave of glowing brocades, sultry velvets, sequins and lace.
Even today, seen from a Chinese tour bus, the continent of Europe resembles not so much an ancient collection of cities and nations as a glittering emporium stocked with brands.
It is a magnet to cyber-entrepreneurs who dream of pushing the computer revolution into new areas: companies such as American Cybercast, which is trying to pioneer entertainment on the Internet, Virtual Emporium (Internet shopping) and Digital Domain (special effects).Is LA's production-based economy more robust than its corporate one?
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