(n.) A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.
(n.) The brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) With over 50,000 apps and more than 1bn downloads, it is hardly surprising that Blackberry, Nokia, Microsoft and Google have all now jumped on the app emporium bandwagon.
(2) Updated at 5.23pm BST 2.20pm BST Right, I have been unchained from the desk and I am going to use this freedom to escape from the building and visit the local sandwich emporium for some much-needed nourishment.
(3) It really is an emporium of everything inspirational.
(4) The suspected mastermind of the online drug emporium Silk Road is facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison after a jury returned a guilty verdict at the end of a four-week trial that revealed a plethora of detail about US investigations into the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.
(5) This brings you past The Emporium, bristling with superior souvenirs, many designed by local artists, such as Zoe Murphy and Keith Brymer Jones .
(6) "I offer Carl Zimmer's emporium of science tattoos ."
(7) A blue collar, white collar, no collar sort of place where couture punk, vintage clothes stores and mid-century modern furniture emporiums can be found.
(8) So when gobby northern powerhouse Sarah-Lou went into soap labour five weeks early in Tracy’s flower emporium, Preston’s Petals, she was horrified to find herself with only Todd and The Barlow on hand.
(9) A recent series of tornados cut a path of destruction a mile wide for greater than 40 miles (64 km), killed 20 people, and caused several hundred casualities on the evening of April 26, 1991, in Tornado Alley, which runs from the northern border of Oklahoma through southern Kansas past Wichita toward Emporium, Kansas.
(10) Alighting from Bengal in 1857, the tiger was the latest exotic addition to Charles Jamrach’s Animal Emporium on the deathly Ratcliffe Highway.
(11) Artisan makers are popping up all over the country: Gelupo , Sorbitium Ices and La Grotta Ices in London, Ginger's Comfort Emporium in Manchester and Affogato in Edinburgh being among the more ambitious.
(12) Having been sent the script for Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium on the Thursday, she knew immediately it was a goodie.
(13) As it happens, they are all the precise opposite of those things, which is just as well, as Elko is a small town, and it quickly becomes impossible to walk the few blocks between Biltoki, Stockmen's, the Folklife Center, the spectacular cowboy-wear emporium of JM Capriola (where you can eavesdrop on the involved process that is buying a hat) and the rejuvenating oasis of Cowboy Joe's coffee shop, without someone hailing you by name.
(14) "What has running government got to do with buying pretty frocks and underwear, which is the basis of a high street emporium?"
(15) Seven clean and well-lit floors of specialist shops, including the impressive K-Books manga emporium, anime figure merchants galore, used goods, replica firearms, even a store dedicated to yo-yos.
(16) In the 90s, fashion students and wannabe YBAs took over the northern end of the street, turning its former brewery buildings into vintage clothes emporiums and bars.
(17) The ASA banned the ads, which were created by UK agency Big Al's Creative Emporium, and ordered JTI not to make the assertions in future campaigns.
(18) And independent online retailers on the UK mainland have suffered as well as the high street: three years ago, Richard Allen was forced to shut The Freak Emporium , his British-based online business, because, he says, of the VAT loophole.
(19) One souvenir emporium has come up with a radical new city mascot, Melon Bear, whose aggressive snarl and bulging veins push the boundaries of cute into the realm of the creepy.
(20) It's 1974, I'm sitting across the street from Burberry's Haymarket emporium in London watching a gaggle of tourists come out of the store, each wearing the same dark blue raincoat and distinctive Burberry scarf .
Facetious
Definition:
(a.) Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
(a.) Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) This, in turn, prompted an apology from the director, along with a (possibly facetious) denial that he was "a Nazi".
(2) He is very facetious and constantly observing the crowd… His character is very spontaneous, which I am but, at the same time, when I prepare a spectacle, I leave nothing to chance, I am very methodical.
(3) There are side-effects associated with inhaled steroids, which are the most commonly prescribed preventative treatment, but if standard doses are used these are usually mild.” For his part, Bush admitted his language may have been “facetious”.
(4) I obviously missed the point if they were horrified – it was funny and a little facetious."
(5) The tweet was "obviously facetious" and "a parody", he added.
(6) It was the first time that the men's and women's game had unified and instead we are talking about someone who we paid to come in as entertainment and be facetious about something we stand vehemently against so I apologise for that.
(7) "He looks permanently pink and facetious, as though life is one big public-school prank," writes the former Labour MP Chris Mullin, usually quite forgiving towards Tories, in his diaries for December 2010.
(8) Numerous articles have appeared in the English literature, but we have been able to find only two editorials in semi-facetious vein in the South African Medical Journal over the last 20 years.
(9) Heard’s barrister, Paula Morreau, said: “Obviously it’s foreshadowed and they wanted to attempt to … ” before White interjected to say she was “just being facetious”.
(10) Wodehouse was what Orwell called "a political innocent", someone whose essential stupidity about politics - "his mild facetiousness covering an unthinking acceptance [of the world he inhabited]" - rescued him from the charge of the worst sorts of hypocrisy.
(11) Sometimes …) If we follow the form, naturally there'll be the ritual feast, the haggis piped in, addressed, sacrificed and served, the traditional speeches, the Address to the Lassies, the Reply, the Immortal Memory, which is supposed to skip the facetiousness and meditate on some aspect of the poet's life and his work.
(12) Asked about the claim by the former Liberal MP Lord Alton that he had "facetiously" said Smith's behaviour was no different to conduct at public schools, Steel said: "You say it is a facetious remark.
(13) The facetiousness couldn't obscure the truism: five months after Chua's piece, Time magazine published an article titled " Why do we fear a rising China ?"
(14) (Parody and doggerel and facetiousness are big features of Burns suppers.
(15) "We have a very facetious Liverpool sense of humour, laughing at things which are stupid," says Wells.
(16) You can ask a facetious question too – just be sure to keep it respectful.
(17) When I say “know-nothing,” I’m not being facetious or hyperbolic.
(18) Twain understood publicity so well that he was merely amused when Huck Finn was banned by libraries across the US; when it was banned in Omaha, Nebraska, for example, he sent a telegram to the local newspaper, observing facetiously: "I am tearfully afraid this noise is doing much harm.
(19) A facetious comparison, maybe, but shouldn’t home crowds give Scottish comics an advantage?
(20) He said: “If the last few weeks tell us anything: it is rarely a help to mention Hitler in support of an argument by an ex-mayor of London.” Paddy Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader, said Johnson was “yet another tuppenny tin-pot imitation Churchill promising to ‘fight them on the beaches’ while weakening our defences and wrecking our economy.” Owen Smith, a Labour shadow cabinet minister, said Johnson was “a cut-rate Donald Trump.” “It’s a ridiculous and facetious comment by a man who is apt to make ridiculous and facetious comments,” Smith told LBC.