emporium

FREQ #29208

n. 商场, 大百货商店

发音

UK /ɛmˈpɔːɹ.i.əm/
UK /ɪm-/
US /ɛmˈpoɹ.i.əm/
US /ɪm-/
/ɛmˈpoː(ə)ɹ.i.əm/

词形变化

emporia emporiums 复数 emporiums emporia 复数

别名

empory

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.

    比喻
  2. 2.

    A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.

    比喻

    With a name like “The Wine and Spirits Emporium”, no wonder the prices are so high.

  3. 3.

    A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).

    历史
  4. 4.

    The brain.

    废旧 引申义

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

department store

上位词 2

outlet retail store

词源

Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”), from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “factory, trading station; market”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant, trader; traveller”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). ἔμπορος is derived from ἐμ- (em-) (variant of ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + πόρος (póros, “journey; passageway”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth”)), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ (en pórōi, “at sea; en route”). Sense 4 (“the brain”) alludes to the organ as the place where many nerves or nerve impulses meet.

来源：wiktionary