emporium

/ɛmˈpɔriəm/
noun
  1. A large store or shop that sells a wide variety of goods.
    • We visited a candy emporium that had hundreds of different sweets.
    • The old emporium downtown sells everything from clothes to kitchen tools.
    • The furniture emporium is having a big sale this weekend.
  2. A place or center of trade and commerce, often in a historical or grand sense.
    • Ancient Rome was a great emporium for goods from across the empire.
    • The port city grew into a busy emporium for spices and silk.
    • This market has been an emporium for local farmers for over a century.
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