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Definition: Emporium |
EmporiumNoun1. A large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emporium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Etymology: Emporium \Em*po"ri*um\, noun; plural Emporiums, from Latin expression Emporia. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from belonging to commerce, from traveler, trader; in way through and over, path. See In, and Empiric, Fare.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: EmporiumSynonym: department store (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mart | Shop, emporium, establishment; store; department store, general store, five and ten, variety store, co-op, finding store, grindery warehouse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Emporium |
| English words defined with "emporium": Emporetical, Emporia, Emporiums. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "emporium": 15834 ♦ Puteoli. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Emporium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (emporium). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Eppy's Emporium (1990) | |
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 | [Howard D. Fishburn] / Photo Reflex Studio of the Emporium.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | E. K. Plotnikova Emporium (shops) (late 19th century), Arkhangelsk, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | I. I. Poliakov Emporium (late 19th century), Barnaul, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Emporium Lumber Company's hardwood mill at Austin, Pa. which stood the flood.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Emporium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.01% of the time. "Emporium" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.01% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (common) | 2.99% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Emporium, PA (borough, FIPS 23600) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drug emporium | 222 |
emporium pennsylvania | 119 |
emporium | 115 |
emporium food | 96 |
pantie hose and nylon emporium | 80 |
antique rose emporium | 68 |
perfume emporium | 63 |
emporium grand | 25 |
music emporium | 25 |
emporium wicker | 24 |
emporium turkish | 23 |
emporium outdoor | 22 |
doll house emporium | 19 |
used bike emporium | 18 |
emporium wireless | 17 |
emporium troutmans | 15 |
emporium pixies | 15 |
emporium sports | 15 |
emporium pleasure | 14 |
emporium pet | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "emporium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | treg (market, mart, outlet), qendër tregtare (factory, Mall, mart, Piazza, Plaza, shopping mall), magazinë e madhe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متجر ضخم, مركز تجاري (mart, plaza, shopping centre, shopping mal), سوق (carry, corner, drive, fair, herd, market, mart, merchandise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | търговски център (mart, shopping mall, staple), голям универсален магазин (store), пазар (market, marketing, marketplace, mart, outlet, shopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 商场 (Emporiums). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obchodní středisko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مرکزفروش , جای بازرگانی , بازاربزرگ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marché, grand magasin, centre commercial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Handelsplatz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח ות כל בו (department store, dime store, supermarket, variety store). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | áruház (bazaar, department store, departmental store, emporia, general store, godown, stores). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emporio (department store, general shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yl-happ, margey (fair, market, mart, treaty), ard-vargey (supermarket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emporiumay estabelecimento (business establishment, closing, constitution, establishment, foundation, institute, premise, settlement), envenenar (bane, enviable, poison), empório. (various references) târg (agreement, bargain, borough, business, fair, go, haggle, haggling, market, sale, town, townlet, trade), magazin universal (department store, store), magazin (boutique, magazine, pictorial, repository, shop, store, storehouse), centru comercial (mart). (various references) универмаг (department store), рынок (market, market place, marketplace, mart, seller's market), торговый центр (mart, shopping center, shopping mall, shopping precinct). (various references) trgovačko središte. (various references) emporio (department store, mart). (various references) varuhus (department, department store, departmentstores, store), handelscentrum. (various references) ศูนย์การค้า (center). (various references) ticaret merkezi (center of trade, centre of trade, entrepot, rialto, trade center), pazar yeri (agora, forum, market place), market, mağaza (shebang, shop, store). (various references) універмаг, ринок (market, mart). (various references) nơi buôn bán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emporium": emporiums. (additional references) | |
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"Emporium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empodium, emporiium, empsonian, imporium, temporum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emporium" (pronounced e'mpô"rēum) |
| 5 | -ô" r ē u m | auditorium, crematorium, moratorium. |
| 4 | -r ē u m | aquarium, atrium, bacterium, barium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, equilibrium, Herbarium, honorarium, opprobrium, planetarium, tellurium, thorium, yttrium. |
| 3 | -ē u m | alluvium, ammonium, axiom, beryllium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, compendium, condominium, consortium, europium, fermium, gallium, geranium, gonium, gymnasium, hafnium, harmonium, helium, holmium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, medium, millennium, minium, myocardium, nephridium, neptunium, niobium, nobelium, opium, osmium, palladium, pandemonium, paramecium, petroleum, Plasmodium, plutonium, podium, polonium, potassium, premium, presidium, promethium, protium, psyllium, radium, requiem, rhodium, selenium, sodium, stadium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tedium, thallium, titanium, tritium, uranium, vanadium, zirconium. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-m-o-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: premium. | |
-2 letters: immure, impure, memoir, mopier, mumper, pommie, umpire. | |
-3 letters: mimeo, mimer, moire, moper, opium, ourie, prime, primo, proem. | |
-4 letters: emir, euro, memo, meou, mime, mire, mome, momi, mope, more, moue, mump, mure, omer, peri, perm, pier, poem, pome, pore, pour, prim, prom, pure, puri, repo, rime, ripe, romp, rope, roue, roup, rump. | |
-5 letters: emu, imp, ire, mem, mim, mir, mom, mop, mor, mum, ope, ore, our, per, pie, piu, poi, pom, pro, pur, rei, rem, rep, rim, rip, roe, rom, rue, rum, umm, ump, upo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-m-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: emporiums. | |
+2 letters: promethium. | |
+3 letters: promethiums. | |
+4 letters: minicomputer, multiproblem, praseodymium, spermagonium. | |
+5 letters: immunotherapy, microcomputer, minicomputers, multiemployer, praseodymiums. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 70 6F 72 69 75 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m p o r i u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0070 006F 0072 0069 0075 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979828184758779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Cities 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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