| 词组 | emporium |
| 释义 | emporium The literal meaning of emporium in Latin is "a place of trade; marketplace." As used in English, it now typically denotes a store or restaurant that is notably large, notably busy, or notably pretentious. It has two plurals, emporiums and emporia, both of which are in good use: • ... turn them into fast-food burger and chicken emporiums —Glenn Collins, N.Y. Times, 4 Feb. 1973 • ... the huge emporia that do their brisk trade in shopping centers —William Safire, N.Y. Times, 6 May 1974 • ... established their imposing emporiums along Broadway —Dorothy Seiberling, New York, 20 May 1974 • ... found ... prices to be higher than those of the fancy gourmet emporia —Lee Aitken, New England Monthly, April 1984 Emporiums is the more common of the two. |
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