0 a large shop that sells many different types of goods, or a shop that sells a particular type of goods: --
1 a large store selling a large range of goods, or a store selling a particular type of goods: --
The officials, who are emporiums of information, are placed in the background like the prompters in a theatre.
It was known as the new co-operative emporium.
The individual is given a sight test, then takes his prescription round the corner to a general emporium where he can buy his glasses.
A few weeks ago a new emporium was opened in my district.
The idea is now to build a new glass and marble emporium in the middle of the city at a cost of £40 million.
And this huge emporium is growing and growing until, quite soon, its roofs will be visible to these people in their overcrowded homes.
We were the emporium, the centre of gravity of the activities of the terrestrial globe.
Longstreth documents the series of developments that turned the nineteenth-century emporium into a new kind of store which by the '30s had taken the form that is so familiar today.
