emporiums

variants also emporia
plural of emporium
as in stores
an establishment where goods are sold to consumers an emporium for home electronic equipment filled with stuff I didn't know I needed but now desperately want

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Recent Examples of emporiums The thoroughfare is already home to Stefano Ricci, Mayfair Gallery, and countless prestigious flagships, emporiums, and eateries. — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 11 July 2026 The 2026 Prix Versailles laureates named the most beautiful airports, campuses, passenger stations, sports, museums, emporiums, hotels and restaurants in the world. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 25 June 2026 After soaking in the history and charm of the Duomo, walk over to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, one of the world’s oldest shopping emporiums with outposts from Prada to Gucci. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026 In addition to airports, Prix Versailles also recognized projects across several other categories, including campuses, passenger stations, sports venues, museums, emporiums, hotels and restaurants. — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 18 Jan. 2026 Each year since 2015, the Prix Versailles World Jury has awarded 24 prizes across eight categories — airports, campuses, passenger stations, sports, museums, emporiums, and hotels and restaurants. — Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2026 By the nineteen-nineties, Uniclo had expanded to more than a hundred locations, many of them barnlike roadside emporiums where customers could pull in and grab a pack of underwear. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emporiums
Noun
  • The hotel’s personality is spelled out by the stores in the mall it’s connected to—all upscale, all chic.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Cross-category retailing can up the experiential quotient for beauty in travel retail stores.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The result is Pedder Arcade, which offers six shops, a bar and a coffee shop targeted mainly to men on the fifth floor of the city’s Pedder Building.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Isaias came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane Friday near Destin, Florida, a Gulf Coast vacation spot filled with high-rises and tourist shops.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • By the 19th century, peep shows had evolved into cosmoramas, collected in galleries housed in urban bazaars across Britain and Ireland.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier this year, it was reported that Pixar had a new original movie, Ono Ghost Market, in the works based on Asian myths about supernatural bazaars where the living and dead interact.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026

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