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say it: em-PAW-ree-uhm
emporium is a noun meaning "a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain". It is pronounced /ˌɛmˈpɔɹiəm/ — em-PAW-ree-uhm. It carries one recorded sense.
a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for emporium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.